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The main thing that excites me is that it's not Webkit. Google has infested it's rendering engine into everything, even my favorite: Opera. Having competition

The main thing that excites me is that it's not Webkit. Google has infested it's rendering engine into everything, even my favorite: Opera. Having competition is great, I will give this browser a genuine shot.

tree_of_item 12y ago
WebKit doesn't belong to Google (Apple started the project as a fork from KHTML), and they don't even use it anymore, they forked it in to Blink, which is what Opera uses.
- chc 12y ago
  "They don't even use it anymore" is a bit of an exaggeration. "They made a fork of WebKit and renamed their fork Blink" is more accurate. It's still pretty close to the same thing.
  - ahoge 12y ago
    They should be over 100k commits apart by now. A lot happened in those 2 years.
    - chc 12y ago
      Well, sure, but a lot more happened in the preceding 10-15 years. Blink still has more in common with WebCore than it does with, say, Gecko, Trident or Presto.
      - ahoge 12y ago
        As a web developer or user, you can't really see the similarities anymore. The basic stuff like CSS 2.1 works the same everywhere. It's the new features where the browsers differ. http://caniuse.com/#compare=ie+TP,firefox+39,chrome+44,safari+8 http://caniuse.com/#compare=ie+TP,firefox+39,chrome+44,safar... Chrome matches Safari in 57 cases. However, Chrome matches Firefox in 61 cases. So, going by the implementation status of those features, Chrome might as well be using a fork of Gecko. Here is the script I used: for (let b = 1; b < 5; b++) { let r = [0, 0, 0, 0]; [].forEach.call($$('tbody tr'), function (row) { for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) { r[i] += +(row.cells[i + 1].className === row.cells[b].className); } }); console.log(r); } Output: [130, 35, 36, 48] [35, 130, 61, 36] [36, 61, 130, 57] [48, 36, 57, 130]
myrryr 12y ago
Keep an eye on Servo as well. https://github.com/servo/servo https://github.com/servo/servo
- joshuapants 12y ago
  I'm definitely excited to see where this goes. For all its boneheaded decisions, Mozilla does seem to have some soul left.

tree_of_item 12y ago

WebKit doesn't belong to Google (Apple started the project as a fork from KHTML), and they don't even use it anymore, they forked it in to Blink, which is what Opera uses.

chc 12y ago
"They don't even use it anymore" is a bit of an exaggeration. "They made a fork of WebKit and renamed their fork Blink" is more accurate. It's still pretty close to the same thing.
- ahoge 12y ago
  They should be over 100k commits apart by now. A lot happened in those 2 years.
  - chc 12y ago
    Well, sure, but a lot more happened in the preceding 10-15 years. Blink still has more in common with WebCore than it does with, say, Gecko, Trident or Presto.
    - ahoge 12y ago
      As a web developer or user, you can't really see the similarities anymore. The basic stuff like CSS 2.1 works the same everywhere. It's the new features where the browsers differ. http://caniuse.com/#compare=ie+TP,firefox+39,chrome+44,safari+8 http://caniuse.com/#compare=ie+TP,firefox+39,chrome+44,safar... Chrome matches Safari in 57 cases. However, Chrome matches Firefox in 61 cases. So, going by the implementation status of those features, Chrome might as well be using a fork of Gecko. Here is the script I used: for (let b = 1; b < 5; b++) { let r = [0, 0, 0, 0]; [].forEach.call($$('tbody tr'), function (row) { for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) { r[i] += +(row.cells[i + 1].className === row.cells[b].className); } }); console.log(r); } Output: [130, 35, 36, 48] [35, 130, 61, 36] [36, 61, 130, 57] [48, 36, 57, 130]

myrryr 12y ago

Keep an eye on Servo as well. https://github.com/servo/servo https://github.com/servo/servo

joshuapants 12y ago
I'm definitely excited to see where this goes. For all its boneheaded decisions, Mozilla does seem to have some soul left.