Chrome Dropping WebKit for Blink in 10 Weeks

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Google announced this week that it will be officially switching over to its own rendering engine, Blink, and dropping Webkit in about 10 weeks. The 10 week window coincides with the stable release of Chrome 28 timetable, but beta versions will be available for trial much earlier.

The company spelled out the difficulties in supporting its multi-process architecture in Webkit, which it said "slowed down the collective pace of innovation,"
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time to start editing all that HTML again
 
Blink is just a fork of Webkit, like Servo (Mozilla / Samsung fork of Webkit) will be.

So it stands...
Google : Blink (soon)
Opera : Blink (not as soon)
Safari : Webkit
Firefox : Servo (eventually)
IE : Trident (awesome111!)

google explains it all, and totally dismisses concerns about compatibility :p:
The duo also dismissed the notion that more browsers running on WebKit translates into greater compatibility. In short, they argued that interoperability issues already exist among the various WebKit architectures. "It's important to remember that WebKit is already not a homogenous target for developers. For example, features like WebGL and IndexedDB are only supported in some WebKit-based browsers," they wrote.
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http://www.infoworld.com/t/web-deve...-what-shift-blink-means-web-developers-215801
 
Servo is not a fork of Webkit, and there's no guarantee that it will eventually make it into an official product. It's simply is a test to see how the rendering engine could be improved by rewriting the browser to support massively parallel processing hardware.
 
prndll said:
time to start editing all that HTML again
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Not by much. Any CSS code that had engine specific tags (eg, -webkit) will no longer be needed. That's about it.
 
techrat said:
Not by much. Any CSS code that had engine specific tags (eg, -webkit) will no longer be needed. That's about it.
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hopefully so. It's just nice when browsers display uniformly no matter what the engine is.
 
If Google is forking Webkit, will Blink still be open source, or how does that work :confused:
 
janas19 said:
If Google is forking Webkit, will Blink still be open source, or how does that work :confused:
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It will have to be. I believe WebKit is LGPL(?), meaning they are required by the licence to make the source open
 
All these technologies are interchangeable.

They probably want to move to a beefier engine to better support chromium and their future plans of running everything from within the browser.

Oh and also collect more data.....must have PII:cool:
 
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