It seems Google decision to fork WebKit in order to create
its own browser rendering engine has paid off as another company has decided to
provide support and contribute to the furthering of its latest creation – the Blink
rendering engine.
This time it’s Adobe who made the statement that they will
be supporting and contributing to Blink. According to the company’s director of
engineering for its web platform team Vincent Hardy, the creation of Blink will
strengthen an already healthy browser competition and adds that “the web is
bigger than any one of its leading browser implementations and too important to
be limited by a single code base even if that implementation has variations”.
Adobe has previously collaborated with Google and other companies
including Google’s Chromium project and Mozilla on its Gecko engine for the
improvement of the web. Adobe also doesn’t seem to be a bit concerned about any
fragmentation in the browser ecosystem nor is it worried for a WebKit
monoculture even after Opera’s announcement a few weeks ago about adopting
WebKit over its own Presto engine.
Instead, Hardy stressed that the web needs to have engines
such as Mozilla’s Gecko and IE’s Trident engines to make the web an open and
innovative environment. And in continuing the company’s previous efforts, Hardy
adds that Adobe will continue to focus on making sure browser engines
interoperate and that it offers developers ways to test their site across
different browsers.
