Google forked WebKit into Blink because most of its features (such as
the Javascript engine, or the Chrome/ium multi-process engine) were
already replaced by their own code, meaning a full-blown WebKit
included in Chrome/ium would simply take up precious place. The main
goal of Blink is to provide that simplistic layer of WebKit to
Chrome/ium what it actually uses, and optimize it for that exact role
(and in the future, extend it further with new, actually used features).
Also Blink as of now is not much different from WebKit - the main
change, the removal of nearly 7000 files, 7 build systems (and if I
recall correctly, approx. 200 million lines of code) will only
commence in the future. So right now it is not a big change, but in
the future it might be a viable option, especially if Canonical plans
on using Chrome/ium's other features in the built-in browser (such as
the V8 JavaScript engine), it might be ideal to use Blink.
On 6 April 2013 23:24, Arunprasad Rajkumar <ararunprasad@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ararunprasad@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello Folks,
Hope you guys are aware of <blink>
<http://www.chromium.org/blink>, the WebKit fork by google for
chromium is announced couple of days back. What is your opinion
on this? AFAIK Ubuntu Phone is using QtWebKit port, any roadmap
about using <blink> ?
(Sorry if this a stupid question to ask in this forum)
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