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Google Forks WebKit As Blink Rendering Engine
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no prefixes
They aren't going to have a prefix. If something's not ready then they're going to hide it behind an "enable experimental features" button, but it will always use the non-prefixed form.
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prefix?
So now we need to use a -blink- prefix and the -webkit- prefix with all CSS3 "statements"? Or what will happen?
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Originally posted by frign View PostThere is no need to refer to how big of a step it was to remove the old Apple-style-span.
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So it's a fork of a fork. I wonder if Apple is going to complain about how bad forks are.Last edited by TheBlackCat; 03 April 2013, 07:59 PM.
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostWhat the fsck did they cut!? 4.5Million lines of Code? Jesus H Christ o.o
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What the fsck did they cut!? 4.5Million lines of Code? Jesus H Christ o.o
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Cool!
This definitely is interesting news!
I look forward to a rendering-engine with less legacy-bloat of the old days having been mainly with Apple and Safari. There is no need to refer to how big of a step it was to remove the old Apple-style-span.
In this regard, getting rid of 4.8 million lines of more or less relevant code (I guess rather the latter, being architecture-specific) will have its merits.Last edited by frign; 03 April 2013, 06:40 PM.
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Google Forks WebKit As Blink Rendering Engine
Phoronix: Google Forks WebKit As Blink Rendering Engine
Just earlier today was word that Mozilla is developing Servo, a new web-browser engine, and now comes a similar action out of Google. The search giant announced this afternoon they are forking the WebKit code-base for their Chrome/Chromium web-browser to form the "Blink" engine...
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