Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 8:33 am

Google Chrome features being checked back into WebKit

9Sep 08

As you know, Google’s Chrome browser is built on top of WebKit, the same engine used in Apple’s Safari browser among others. Google made a big deal of their new V8 JavaScript engine they’d written for Chrome and it seems like this, and the graphics rendering library they use, are being checked back into WebKit for other manufacturers to use should they so wish. Yummy open source goodness.

So now WebKit has V8 AND SquirrelFish JavaScript engines, both super fast, available for browser developers to harness out the box with WebKit. I only hope we see Mozilla pooling their skills and flipping to use WebKit some time in the future for Firefox. They can still build the browser around the engine any way they like, it almost seems unnecessary to have two open source browser engines now. Controversial!

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/08/chrome-features-are-coming-to-webkit/

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One Response to “Google Chrome features being checked back into WebKit”

  1. Jim says:
    February 4, 2009 at 9:33 am

    Not much benefit from Mozilla picking up Webkit.

    Imagine the good for the community if IE8 picked up Webkit though.

    (Hell would freeze over first, – but I’m just saying ;)

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