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Blink! Google Is Forking WebKit

Posted by Soulskill on from the reworking-the-basics dept.

Carewolf writes "In a blog post titled Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project, Google has announced that Chromium (the open source backend for Chrome) will be switching to Blink, a new WebKit-based web rendering engine. Quoting: 'Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down the collective pace of innovation... This was not an easy decision. We know that the introduction of a new rendering engine can have significant implications for the web. Nevertheless, we believe that having multiple rendering engines—similar to having multiple browsers—will spur innovation and over time improve the health of the entire open web ecosystem. ... In the short term, Blink will bring little change for web developers. The bulk of the initial work will focus on internal architectural improvements and a simplification of the codebase. For example, we anticipate that we’ll be able to remove 7 build systems and delete more than 7,000 files—comprising more than 4.5 million lines—right off the bat. Over the long term a healthier codebase leads to more stability and fewer bugs.'"

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  1. In other words... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "We think WebKit has become too mainstream for people as cool as we are"

    1. Re:In other words... by Nerdfest · · Score: 3, Funny

      Relax, I'm sure someone will come along and explain that it's not anti-competitive and Apple have everyone's best interests in mind.

  2. Don't Blink. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blink and you’re dead.
    Don’t turn your back.
    Don’t look away.
    And don’t blink.
    Good Luck.

    1. Re:Don't Blink. by WedgeTalon · · Score: 3, Funny

      Doctor who?

  3. Will Blink let us blink text? by joebok · · Score: 4, Funny

    <blink>I want to blink my text again!!</blink>

  4. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ by gagol · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get the whole need to fork thing... but why name it after the most annoying non-standard tag from the 90's? Someone in marketing should be sacked.

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  5. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ by yincrash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blame Microsoft and web developers.

  6. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forgot about the marquee tag. Protip: If you want to bring a browser to its knees, nest marquee tags.

  7. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ by master5o1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it is called the webkit tag, does this mean that we'll finally see the return of the blink tag?

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  8. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    With pedigree like that it's not surprising you haven't mastered comment formatting on forums.

  9. Re:I wonder if blink will still identify itself @ by chill · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is probably hard to type correctly after having his fingers broken multiple times.

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