excellent blog to keep up to date with chrome and webkit engineering.
Tag: webkit
WebKit IE?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was “interesting” and added “we may look at that”.
Whoa. Likelihood of that happening? 5%
2021-08-05: This eventually happened in 2018.
Async Page Loads
The latest WebKit nightlies contain some new optimizations to reduce the impact of network latency. When script loading halts the main parser, we start up a side parser that goes through the rest of the HTML source to find more resources to load. We also prioritize resources so that scripts and stylesheets load before images. The overall effect is that we are now able to load more resources in parallel with scripts, including other scripts.
KHTML and Webkit unforking
In open source terms, this may be as big of a deal as the gcc and egcs merger of yonder days. KHTML and Webkit are definitely coming of age. The KDE developers, responsible for the original creation of KHTML, are dedicated to seeing this unforking happen and are taking a leading role in that effort.
those sort of events are far too rare
Swift
a Web Browser for Microsoft Windows based around the WebKit rendering engine
Gregor J. Rothfuss 