Google may force you to change your website

With the blog post, Google played down the effect this would have on web developers.

Google’s Chrome web browser was built on WebKit, an open source rendering engine developed by Apple that also underpins many other browsers, including Safari and Opera. But on Wednesday, Google told the world it will no longer use WebKit. Instead, it’s starting its own variation — or fork — of WebKit. This new open source project is known as Blink.

The aim is to speed the development of Chrome — and, according to Google, speed to development of WebKit too — but an extra rendering engine can only make it harder for web developers to build sites that work well across the popular browsers.

There are already two other major rendering engines — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer engine and Mozilla Firefox’s Gecko. Opera switched from its own rendering engine to WebKit in February.

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/blink/