On: Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images

[meibo]

WebKit used to use Skia as well afaik, but switched to Cairo(a FOSS 2d graphics library without any connections to Google) after Google forked WebKit.

The same thing happened to V8, Apple made JavaScriptCore to remove dependencies on any Google-owned code after Google stopped contributing to WebKit itself.

https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/Dependencies

[gsnedders → meibo]

> WebKit used to use Skia as well afaik, but switched to Cairo(a FOSS 2d graphics library without any connections to Google) after Google forked WebKit.

IIRC, Skia and Cairo were supported simultaneously before the Blink fork.

The Apple ports have always used Core Graphics, provided by the system (or with Apple software—notably iTunes—on Windows).

> The same thing happened to V8, Apple made JavaScriptCore to remove dependencies on any Google-owned code after Google stopped contributing to WebKit itself.

JavaScriptCore far predates V8: it's a fork of KJS dating back to the KHTML/KJS fork into WebCore/JavaScriptCore.

[saagarjha → meibo]

Apple has, as far as I can tell, always used CoreText on macOS.

[meibo → saagarjha]

Yeah, you're right, my bad - It seems I was misremembering about that part, too late to edit now.

[ronaldj → meibo]

Pretty sure JavaScriptCore predates Chrome. V8 was Chrome only.