Google’s Blink: a few interesting facts
With Blink , Google has created a permanent fork of the WebKit HTML engine. This blog post mentions a few interesting facts that provide context for that decision. How much did each company contribute to WebKit? There are several interesting diagrams and numbers in the article “ Reviewers and companies in the WebKit project ” (by Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar for Bitergia). It’s remarkable how much Google has recently contributed to WebKit. Obviously, not all contributions are created equal: some benefit everyone, others only the contributor. We don’t know what the ratio between the two kinds is for Apple, Google, etc. Why didn’t WebKit2 adopt Chrome’s multiprocess architecture? Here is an Apple employee’s explanation of why WebKit2 has a multiprocess architecture that is different from Chrome’s: Before we wrote a single line of what would become WebKit2 we directly asked Google folks if they would be willing to contribute their multiprocess support back to WebKit, so that we could bu...