[webkit-dev] Opera and WebKit

[Dirk Schulze]

I interprete 'Chromium' as V8 and not JSC.

Dirk

2013/2/13 Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com>

> Welcome to webkit!
>
> Are you still going to be using Carakan?  Or are you planning on using
> WebKit's ES engine?  If so are there any Carakan<->JSC compatibility issues
> we should be aware of?
>
> --Oliver
>
> On Feb 13, 2013, at 12:06 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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