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Google's "Blink" rendering engine

Posted Apr 4, 2013 15:06 UTC (Thu) by sumC (subscriber, #1262)
In reply to: Google's "Blink" rendering engine by bawjaws
Parent article: Google's "Blink" rendering engine

Opera is at least going to use Blink.
http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2013/hello-blink/

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Posted Apr 4, 2013 21:14 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

In fact the timing suggests this is not a coincidence. One possibility is that Google was coordinating this in secret with Opera, so that when the Blink fork was announced it would not be just Google going alone but Google + Opera. Better PR.

Google's "Blink" rendering engine

Posted Apr 5, 2013 8:10 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

You are reading too much into this. Such things don't happen overnight. Decision to create fork most likely brewed for a long time - in fact it was a de-facto situation already (Chromium uses WebKit1 while most other direct WebKit users use WebKit2) - thus when Opera decided to join Chromium world it was probably already more-or-less decided. Which means that Opera was notified about creation of fork in advance but probably had nothing to do with decision itself.