{"id":110,"date":"2013-02-18T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T06:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adreamer.godohosting.com\/en\/?p=110"},"modified":"2013-02-18T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T06:10:23","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-a-webkit-monoculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/archives\/110","title":{"rendered":"The Pros And Cons Of A WebKit Monoculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.webkit.org\/images\/icon-gold.png?resize=215%2C174\" width=\"215\" height=\"174\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/02\/17\/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-webkit-monoculture\/\">The Pros And Cons Of A WebKit Monoculture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on WebKit Monoculture debate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to hear Mozilla won&#8217;t abandon Gecko anytime soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most vocal opposition to this kind of monoculture has come from Mozilla, which is obviously heavily invested in its own Gecko engine and Servo, its forthcoming successor. Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich argues that monoculture is a problem Mozilla must fight because of its mission. Adding to this, Mozilla engineer Steve Fink argued that an all-WebKit web \u2013 both on mobile and desktop \u2013 would prevent innovation and lead to a small number of companies controlling the web as a platform and just lead to added complexity and confusion in the long run.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, Opera had no choice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even Opera, in its own announcement, argued that \u201cmonoculture is bad,\u201d but then also added a somewhat defeatist note to this, saying that it \u201cwas never really in a position to prevent it in the first place,\u201d because despite its considerable market share on mobile, \u201cweb developers still designed just for WebKit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pros And Cons Of A WebKit Monoculture More on WebKit Monoculture debate. I&#8217;m glad to hear Mozilla won&#8217;t abandon Gecko anytime soon. The most vocal opposition to this kind of monoculture has come from Mozilla, which is obviously heavily invested in its own Gecko engine and Servo, its forthcoming successor. Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/archives\/110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pros And Cons Of A WebKit Monoculture<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[52,54,53,46],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-story","tag-monoculture","tag-mozilla","tag-opera","tag-webkit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkdrops.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}