[webkit-dev] Announcing WebKit2

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Thu Apr 8 18:30:38 PDT 2010


On Apr 8, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Chris Fleizach wrote:

> If its in a separate process, does Accessibility still work as  
> expected?

It does not yet work in this rough initial version, but it's certainly  
our intent to make it work.

Cheers,
Maciej

>
> On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Anders Carlsson wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a  
>> new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a  
>> while. We currently call this new framework "WebKit2".
>>
>> WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process  
>> model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives  
>> in a separate process. This model is similar to what Google Chrome  
>> offers, with the major difference being that we have built the  
>> process split model directly into the framework, allowing other  
>> clients to use it.
>>
>> Some high-level documentation is available at http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2
>>
>> Currently WebKit2 is available for Mac and Windows, and we would  
>> gladly accept patches to add more ports.
>>
>> We're more than happy to answer any questions you might have, and  
>> we hope that this will be a topic of discussion at the WebKit  
>> Contributors Meeting.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anders Carlsson and Sam Weinig.
>>
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