谷歌宣布基于Webkit开发自主浏览器引擎Blink

BillL[Google]

大家好！

这是昨天发布的一些有关谷歌宣布基于Webkit开发自主浏览器引擎Blink的新闻。因为浏览器国际开源代码的博客论坛在国内可能是被封的，所以我把内容和相关链接贴到这里来:

1) 首先是国际开源代码的博客论坛chromium.org的博客文章：

Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Labels: blink, webkit

WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful design made it the obvious choice for Chromium's rendering engine back when we started. Thanks to the hard work by all in the community, WebKit has thrived and kept pace with the web platform’s growing capabilities since then.

However, Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down the collective pace of innovation - so today, we are introducing Blink, a new open source rendering engine based on WebKit.

This was not an easy decision. We know that the introduction of a new rendering engine can have significant implications for the web. Nevertheless, we believe that having multiple rendering engines—similar to having multiple browsers—will spur innovation and over time improve the health of the entire open web ecosystem.

In the short term, Blink will bring little change for web developers. The bulk of the initial work will focus on internal architectural improvements and a simplification of the codebase. For example, we anticipate that we’ll be able to remove 7 build systems and delete more than 7,000 files—comprising more than 4.5 million lines—right off the bat. Over the long term a healthier codebase leads to more stability and fewer bugs.

Throughout this transition, we’ll collaborate closely with other browser vendors to move the web forward and preserve the compatibility that made it a successful ecosystem. In that spirit, we’ve set strong guidelines for new features that emphasize standards, interoperability, conformance testing and transparency.

To learn more about Blink visit our project page.

Posted by Adam Barth, Software Engineer

原文链接在此： http://blog.chromium.org/2013/04/blink-rendering-engine-for-chromium.html


2) 下面是一些国内媒体报道：

• 新浪科技： http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2013-04-04/07598210483.shtml
• 搜狐科技：http://it.sohu.com/20130404/n371717039.shtml
• 腾讯科技：http://tech.qq.com/a/20130404/000038.htm
• 36KR：http://www.36kr.com/p/202366.html
• 36KR：http://www.36kr.com/p/202372.html
  

顺便给大家提供一个很好玩的由谷歌的工程师参与一起开发的一个介绍浏览器技术的网站，大家可以学习一下浏览器技术发展的历史：
http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com/

谢谢！

Bill