WebKit devs to purge Chrome-specific code as Google goes with Blink

The browser war of the early 2000s has died down to a certain extent, but looks like the browser engine battle is just about beginning. Yesterday, Google announced that it would be forking the WebKit engine to create a homegrown Blink browser engine for Chrome that will supposedly be based on a more streamlined code. Opera, which relies heavily on the Google features in WebKit will also be migrating to Blink for their browser. However, it seems WebKit is not entirely pleased with this development. With Google pulling out of the development, those who are currently maintaining WebKit are planning a salvo to erase all Google-related code from the engine. "Since we no longer need to support the Chromium port, let's take the opportunity to streamline. Hopefully, this will make development easier and more coherent for everyone," Apple's Geoffrey Garen said in a missive to the WebKit development mailing list.

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