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[Robert Bruce Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Opera recently announced that they would be halting engine development and switching to chrome... so they are already on blink.

Aleksandar Jovanov <ajovanov93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Or prehaps partner with opera software and develop opera for ubuntu (touch)?
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>On 04/07/2013 12:45 PM, József Király wrote:
>> 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)
>>
>>     -- 
>>     *Arunprasad Rajkumar*
>>     http://in.linkedin.com/in/ararunprasad
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