Its a shame to have something so ill informed so highly voted, but ignoring the whole fact that there is no 'webkit' and people will still need to deal with the

Its a shame to have something so ill informed so highly voted, but ignoring the whole fact that there is no 'webkit' and people will still need to deal with these nightmares (hello safari) This comment I felt gave a good practical example of the more handwavey 'competition is good' argument "Doing this would mean being forever stuck in single-threaded land for rendering (e.g. nothing like Mozilla's Servo project could ever happen). People have tried to parallelize WebKit and failed: too entangled, too much code making too many assumptions... Parallelism is one of those things that's just incredibly hard to bolt on after the fact. So if you want browsers to never really scale well to large number of cores, by all means try to get them to all switch to WebKit." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5213200 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5213200