Today, Google launched Blink, its fork of the WebKit browser engine, and members of Google's Chrome team clearly are excited about their liberation.
With the fork, Google will concentrate its core browser development efforts on Blink, which will gradually diverge from the WebKit project on which it's based. You can read more about the context and history leading to Blink in CNET's coverage, or read the official Blink blog post and Blink FAQ for the party line.
But to get a feel for the emotion involved, check the commentary from the Chrome team members themselves. They're jubilant.
Some of the best writing on the subject comes from Chrome developer Alex Russell, who believes Blink will let Google move Chrome much faster.
How long does it take you to build a thing you can try out, poke at, improve, or demolish? We mere humans do better when we have directness of action...
To make a better platform faster, you must be able to iterate faster. Steps away from that are steps away from a better platform. Today's WebKit defeats that imperative in ways large and small. It's not anybody's fault, but it does need t... [Read more]
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