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Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

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Re: Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

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Post by ebbv »

I can't help but think that forking WebKit is a business based decision since Apple controls WebKit.

This blog post doesn't make an engineering based argument* so I'm left with the business ones. Which sucks.

* - Just vague "we need to innovate faster" boilerplate. Which is what business people say when there's not a solid engineering based reason.

EDIT:

At the bottom of the project page are some engineering reasons:

http://www.chromium.org/blink

Each person can judge whether it's worth forking or not.

Re: Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

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Post by mankyd »

ebbv wrote: post #2

I can't help but think that forking WebKit is a business based decision since Apple controls WebKit. This blog post doesn't make an engineering based argument* so I'm left with the business ones. Which sucks. * - Just vague "we need to innovate faster" boilerplate. Which is what business people say when there's not a solid engineering based reason. EDIT: At the bottom of the project page are some engineering reasons:…

a) Why does that suck?

b) Although it is a little hand wavey, they do make an engineering argument: "However, Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects."

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