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by MatthewPhillips 5167 days ago
WebKit is not controlled by 2 companies and WebKit is not a single rendering engine. WebKit is a single upstream project, the downstream browsers differ from each other just as much as they differ from gecko or presto based browsers.
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alexchamberlain 5167 days ago
Not sure that is fair; Google push updates to Webkit all the time, but naturally they develop them on their fork.
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MatthewPhillips 5167 days ago
The other vendors choose when/if they merge Google's commits. The grandparent's comment made WebKit sound like a single entity when it's actually several competing companies with overlapping but also differing views on things. They just happen to be working from a common code base.
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alexchamberlain 5167 days ago
Some of Google's engineers have Webkit priveleges. Webkit is a single rendering engine - this should not be confused. It is used by several browsers, who of course, use slightly different compilation configurations, but I doubt that the web designer ever needs to concern themselves with that!
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MatthewPhillips 5167 days ago
No Alex, not all WebKit browsers have feature parity with each other.
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alexchamberlain 5167 days ago
Example please.
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MatthewPhillips 5167 days ago
Touch events - Android (any version) vs. iPhone (any version).

IndexedDB - Chrome Mobile has it (outdated version), Android and iPhone do not.

Chrome will have Dart support at a later date, no other WebKit vendor is going to implement it.

There are literally dozens, just go to caniuse.com and play around for a bit.

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othermaciej 5167 days ago
Chrome and Safari do differ from each other. But "as they differ from gecko or presto based browsers"? No. Nearly all engine-related bug reports we get apply to all WebKit ports. Gecko and WebKit only rarely have bugs in common.
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batista 5167 days ago
The "as much" part is BS. Webkit browsers are FAR more alike rendering-wise than they are with any third party engine.
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MatthewPhillips 5167 days ago
Any difference in rendering between Gecko and WebKit is a bug.
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Dylan16807 5167 days ago
And all software has tons.
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batista 5166 days ago
No, the two browser have also different levels of implementation compliance with CSS3/CSS4 and other technologies.

So, some of those are not bugs, are differences in features.

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