Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine

Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:44PM (#5489369)

> Is this code for "They wouldn't take our changes so we said, 'Fork it!' and made our own." ?

I think its probably more exactly what it says -- a way of eliminating the overhead of dealing with the complexity of the WebKit ecosystem. As noted in the article, "Google says, for example, that it will be able to remove 7 build systems and delete more than 7,000 files comprising more than 4.5 million lines right off the bat."

That's a whole lot of complexity that isn't relevant to what Google is doing with Chrome that is worth not having to deal with.

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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by stock_toaster on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:16PM (#5489605)

This[1] other article infers that those lines/files are related to webkit2 features of multiprocessing and sandbox code.

So it seems to me that ChuckMcM may not be far off.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google...

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