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Google Blink Leaves Open Source WebKit Behind – Will Security Suffer?

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 3, 2013

Google is moving away from WebKit. Google is now going its own way with a new rendering engine called – Blink

Shocking isn’t it?

The announcement just went live and I still find it somewhat unbelievable that Google is forking away from the WebKit community which enabled it to create Chrome/Chromium and Chrome OS.

SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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