CSS Variables, a handy technology to ease Web page programming, could be one casualty in Safari with Google moving its resources to its own browser engine, Blink.
Google engineers wanted to "fork" the WebKit browser engine project that underlies both Safari and Chrome so they could accelerate the pace of Chrome development and adopt changes too extensive to fit into a single open-source project. But, although splitting Blink away from WebKit may indeed make each browser engine more nimble, it also means it's harder to cooperate.
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