[webkit-help] WebKit version?

[Vivek Galatage]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Arunprasad Rajkumar <
> ararunprasad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your good explanation. But none of the ports providing SVN
>> version information in either UA (or) navigator object. Anyhow it is upto
>> them.
>>
>
> That's because it's not meaningful to do. When a vendor decides to release
> a Web browser based on a particular revision of WebKit, the vendor normally
> creates a branch at that revision and then merges regression, security, and
> other important fixes into the branch. It could even revert a revision in
> that branch. WebKit also has various build flags that allows vendors to
> enable or disable features at compilation time. Because of these two
> modifications vendors can make to WebKit, two Web browsers based on a
> WebKit revision X where X is some integer can have different set of
> features, bug fixes, and bugs.
>
> Yeah very good explanation. For chrome, you can try chrome://version/ which
is just an indicative revision (as pointed by R. Niwa i.e. X revision) that
was picked up inside building the chrome. But this is just for the
reference revision number. It will have a lot of other missing pieces added
as mentioned above.



- R. Niwa
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