Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> Recently I saw that the source of the underlying engine for (I think)
> Chrome had roughly halved in size.  I'm not sure if that's the same
> version as the you've got.  They'd done trendy things like devise and
> implement suitable abstractions for different parts of the
> graphics/browsing model, and implemented those in a modular way, and
> surprisingly, it got simpler and smaller.  It's actually quite hard to
> do with the browser, because the standard specifications are not
> well-suited for either writing HTML or implementing it, so it's hard
> to see what abstractions might actually be needed or would work.

that, and they gave up on being compatable with apple's webkit.

- erik