WebKit2 API Layer Brings Split-Process Model

99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes "Anders Carlsson and Sam Weinig over at Apple just announced WebKit2, a rework of the WebKit engine that powers Chrome and Safari. This new version of WebKit incorporates the same style of split-process model that provides stability in Chrome, but built directly into the framework so all browsers based upon WebKit will be able to gain the same level of sandboxing and stability. AppleInsider has a writeup, and the team has provided 'high level documentation' as well. Both Palm and the Epiphany team are going to be happy about this."

Comments

Re:Why is this tagged 'Apple'?

[UnknowingFool]

Like so many things, Webkit isn't an Apple innovation!

Don't let facts and history get in the way of your bias. Webkit was forked from KHTML by Apple in 2002 and named it Webkit. For a while KHTML developers backported Apple's features independently but have since worked closely with Apple incorporating Webkit features into KHTML. Apple released Webkit as open source in 2005. They are still active in maintaining and developing it. Specifically, some developers at Apple did the development and announced the changes on a dev forum:

This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a while.

Re:Why is this tagged 'Apple'?

[TheRaven64]

Did you ever use KHTML? It did a tiny fraction of what WebKit does, and most of the recent stuff (JavaScript implementation, all of the HTML5 support much of the CSS support) is from Apple. It's basically just the work of the KHTML devs in the same way that FreeBSD is basically just the work of those guys at UCB in the '80s.