Google’s decision to abandon open-source web browser engine WebKit for its own mobile rendering engine, Blink, is surprising, expected, tragic, and a godsend — all at once. And it’s also happening ...

Webkit's LGPL may dictate that the project be open source, stoanhart, but that doesn't mean they need to do their development in the open. Google conducts its Android development in secret, and much ...

Big news for the web today: Google has announced that it's going to stop using WebKit as the rendering engine that's behind displaying web pages in Chrome. Instead, it's forking WebKit to create its ...

Without trying to take sides here, what does it say about the future of open-source projects more generally when the somewhat larger code contributor has to leave in order to achieve its goals? The ...