Webkit is an open source browser project. It's based on a rewrite of KDE's browser, mostly done by Apple. KDE was going to merge it back into KHTML, but they found Apple hard to work with (Apple made lots of big changes without explaining them very well, and KDE didn't have the resources to keep up).
It powers Safari and Chrome, and a lot of smaller projects (mobile browsers, email clients, etc).
"Webkit" can refer to the browser (Apple's fork Safari, or a free version of Safari), the rendering engine (WebkitCore), or the rendering and javascript components (WebkitCore and JavaScriptCore).
Google uses WebkitCore (or maybe a fork) for rendering, but their own Javascript engine.
I'm guessing ghost.py uses WebkitCore and JavaScriptCore, so you can find out how a page will be seen by Safari (and probably Chrome, since Google's JS engine shouldn't be that different in the way it behaves).
sscheper, I love your average on HN (-.2). In response to jsprinkles: I do believe this was just a hack and not exactly intended for public consumption but someone decided "hey that's pretty cool let's chuck it on the web". Which has the obvious results of the opinions of hundreds :P
This was an announcement; "someone" in this case is a co-worker of the author. The author of xip.io (sstephenson) came on thread to discuss this and a related announcement about Pow.
The funny thing is that DuckDuckGo will at some point have to ditch their "Carbon Ads" in favor of Google's Paid Ad Feed. Basically, DDG will become a super affiliate of Google.
Is Git 100% social/public? Can code be private? And last question: is it secure enough to where enterprise companies (not just tech hipster startups) use it?
Nothing about git makes it either "social/public" or private. You can use it yourself entirely on our own workstation, you can use it on a company server only your devs have access to, and you can of course make public repos on your own hardware or with hosted solutions such as github.com.
Git is also arguably more secure than many other VCSs since it (in a very very small and generalizing nutshell) works by creating a directed graph of SHA sums. You can't change a file and propagate those changes to other people without everyone being well aware of what has been done. Not unless you can compute useful code that collides with existing code... check out what linus has to say about that improbability some time^ ;).
No, security shouldn't be the issue for enterprise companies, though scalability is often cited as a potential issue. If you currently use perforce to a heavy degree, you might have some issues with going to git. This is not to say that git cannot work for very large companies, it probably just isn't going to work well if you put every project in your large company in a single one or two repos (as many companies do with perforce). It'll handle large projects fine however, it handles the linux kernel like a breeze.
Using a giant repository (like some people do with perforce or even svn) is not a smart move with Git. In fact, I think that it's even mentioned (or at least used to be) in the Git documentation. I've read more than one disgruntled blog post about someone who dumped their entire 60 gigabyte Perforce repo (full of binaries) to Git.
These days you can use git submodules which work quite nicely.
The Linux kernel is on Git. Thousands highly skilled developers use it to manage one of the biggest software projects in the world. That's how mature a technology git is.
I don't get why it's broken? Any numbers/data to share? Why does Angry Birds contain ads if they're broken? Honestly, not trying to be a dick, just trying to understand the problem.
These guys make plenty of cash with those ads. The bigger problem is that it is one of the only options they have and it comes with the price tag of some users complaining about the experience.
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