April 5, 2013 at 10:10Apple clears Chromium's WebKit
Apple has remained the only major company that is developing the Open Source WebKit engine. After Google left, Apple developers announced a "spring sweep" and the removal of unnecessary code from the project , including someone else's JavaScript engine V8.
In the coming weeks will be cleared:
Specific files to be deleted:
In the coming weeks will be cleared:
- Layering violations in WebCore / platform, where Page * or Frame * could be passed to functions
- Supplementable and Supplement
- #if USE (GOOGLEURL)
- #if USE (V8)
- #if! USE (JSC)
- #if PLATFORM (CHROMIUM)
- Skia
- DOMFileSystem
- WebLayer and its scrolling implementation
- #Defines Features That Are Not Popular
Specific files to be deleted:
- .gyp build files
- WebCore / bindings / v8
- WebCore / bindings / scripts / * v8 *
- LayoutTests / platform / chromium *
- Webkit / chromium
- WTF / wtf / chromium
- Webcore / platform / chromium
- WebCore / * Chromium *
- Source / Platform / chromium
- ManualTests / chromium /
- Tools / BuildSlaveSupport / chromium /
- Tools / DumpRenderTree / chromium /