Android Taking Steps Towards WebKit And Chromium
An update about WebKit on Android
Why isn’t Chrome a part of Android? It’s a question as old as time
itself. Or at least a few years old. But given that the same company,
Google, makes both products, it never made much sense. Now they’re
finally taking steps to resolve this.
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Android Taking Steps Towards WebKit And Chromium
As a group of Googlers have announced on the WebKit-Dev group , the Android team is now committed to working more closely with the WebKit community. Yes, it’s a bit odd that a product so devoted to “open” wasn’t really working with the open source community before — but hey, better late than never.
Writes Andrei Popescu:
"We would like to give an update about WebKit on Android. A while ago, we started the effort to upstream the Android port of WebKit. For a variety of reasons, this work took longer than anticipated and was never finished. We realize that the incomplete Android port that exists today in WebKit ToT has caused quite a bit of confusion and inconvenience to the project as a whole and we are very sorry for that."
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