> 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
