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> It relies on an old fork of Webkit that has none of the features of the modern web, no GPU support, and a lot of outright bugs That's really not true. It's a
by kllrnohj 13y ago
> It relies on an old fork of Webkit that has none of the features of the modern web, no GPU support, and a lot of outright bugs
That's really not true. It's an old version of Webkit NOW, yes, but it wasn't when it was still being updated all the way up to Android 4.0. And it absolutely has GPU support - it's had GPU accelerated compositing for CSS 3D transforms, fixed position elements, and scrollable divs since 3.0. It had all that before Chrome did.
In fact Chrome's GPU & rendering architecture today matches what Android Browser has had since 4.1. Chrome had to catch up to Android Browser in many respects.
> I'm hoping all the OEMs build their own browsers off the Chromium WebView that ships in KitKat
Chromium WebView is a requirement. Unless OEMs decide to start maintaining their own webkit forks (something they have not done so far), there will be nothing else but Chromium on Android from 4.4 onwards.