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July 23, 2007

Webkit cohesiveness

Webkit cohesiveness: I had known that the history of the Webkit HTML rendering engine was complicated, but at Ars Technica Troy Unrau tries to tell it in a page. The upshot of this article is that the KHTML effort will port its CSS3 improvements into its offspring, Webkit. The interesting thing is how this HTML renderer is a combination of opensource contribution and corporate contribution, with Nokia financing the move to mobile, and Adobe and Apple helping with the move to Windows. It looks like the original KHTML engine will take advantage of these improvements, as it unforks itself with Webkit.

Posted by JohnDowdell at July 23, 2007 04:35 PM

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More from Asa Dotzler of Mozilla... he wonders how governance for the multi-group codebase will be handled.

Posted by: John Dowdell at July 23, 2007 04:52 PM