[webkit-dev] Opera and WebKit

[Kenneth Rohde Christiansen]

Welcome! Velkommen!

Kenneth

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome at opera.com> wrote:
> Dear WebKit community,
>
> Many of us have met through various web standards efforts, such as
> W3C and WHAT WG. Today I'd like to introduce Opera Software in a new
> forum for us: the webkit-dev mailing list.
>
> We have known WebKit and its KTHML predecessor for some time. Lars
> Knoll, who (re)wrote KHTML in 1999, worked for TrollTech for many
> years. TrollTech and Opera shared a building in Oslo, a building which
> has earned its place in the rendering engine hall of fame.
>
> Some of our best programmers have been working on the WebKit code for
> a while, and today we have announced that we will be using the WebKit
> engine in the future [1]. We will also submit our code; switching from
> Presto to WebKit frees up resources and allows us to contribute to the
> WebKit platform.
>
> The first contributions from our side will be in multi-column layout
> [2]. We have experimented with combining multicol layout with
> page floats and column spans [3]; in 10 lines of CSS code one can
> create amazingly beautiful, scaleable and responsive paged
> presentations [4].
>
> We hope to work with you to further strengthen the open web that we
> all believe in.
>
>    [1] http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2013/02/13/
>    [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/
>    [3] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-gcpm/#page-floats
>    [4] http://people.opera.com/howcome/2013/02-reader
>
> Cheers,
>
> Håkon Wium Lie
> CTO Opera Software
> http://people.opera.com/howcome
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Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
Senior Engineer, WebKit, Qt, EFL
Phone  +45 4294 9458 / E-mail kenneth at webkit.org

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