Apple clears WebKit from Chromium heritage

Apple has remained the only major company that is developing the Open Source WebKit engine. After Google left, developers from Apple announced a “spring sweep” and removal of unnecessary code , including someone else's V8 JavaScript engine, from the project .

Over the next weeks will be cleaned:

• Layering violations in WebCore / platform, where Page * or Frame * could pass functions
• Supplementable and Supplement
• #if USE (GOOGLEURL)
• #if USE (V8)
• #if! USE (JSC)
• #if PLATFORM (CHROMIUM)
• Skia
• DOMFileSystem
• WebLayer and its scrolling implementation
• Functions of #defines that are not popular

Specific files to be deleted:

• .gyp build files
• WebCore / bindings / v8
• WebCore / bindings / scripts / * v8 *
• LayoutTests / platform / chromium *
• Webkit / chromium
• WTF / wtf / chromium
• WebCore / platform / chromium
• WebCore / * Chromium *
• Source / Platform / chromium
• ManualTests / chromium /
• Tools / BuildSlaveSupport / chromium /
• Tools / DumpRenderTree / chromium /