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[Owais Lone <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think Servo would be the best bet in the long run but it'll probably
reach 1.0 after years of development.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-next-generation-web-browser-engine/


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Robert Bruce Park <
robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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)?
> >
> >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)
> >>
> >>     --
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