Yes, of course. Even before we publicly announced Chromium we were able to "upsteam" some patches to WebKit. Now that we are public it is easier for us to do this. You can check for our contributions by searching for @chromium.org email addresses on WebKit. There are some areas like security and testing where having two different perspectives is very valuable. There are other contributions we make that allow Chromium to be abstracted from webkit which do necessarily improve Safari but these changes keep us from stepping on each others toes.
There is a difference between the renderer and the browser. As a result there will be things that WebKit and Apple add to the browser code that do not end up in Chromium. Likewise there are things like the per-process work in Chromium that may not show up in Safari. The V8 JavaScript engine, for example, is completely different from the SquirellFish Extreme JavaScript implementation used by Safari. We have about ten members of our team who are WebKit Contributors and I actively encourage all our our developers to work on WebKit and submit patches. Gaining WebKit Contributor status is a big deal around here and something we applaud. I think it is also good for people to know that the two teams get together for lunch occasionally and talk on IRC constantly. We are trying to be good neighbors. Have you ever heard the saying "Fences make good neighbors?" It is true. In the code we have abstractions that serve like fences. They allow each team to work independently without causing trouble for the other in some areas while working directly on shared code in other areas. Jon On Dec 22, 9:40 am, Andre-John Mas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Could anyone tell me whether any of the work done on Chromium, which > affects the Webkit engine, is being submitted back to the Webkit > project? > > André --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
