Hi Julien, Thanks for your good explanation. But none of the ports providing SVN version information in either UA (or) navigator object. Anyhow it is upto them.
Thanks & Kind Regards, Arun On 4 December 2012 10:53, Julien Chaffraix <[email protected]>wrote: > > Why WebKit doesn't have version other than safari version? > > There is a couple of misconception in this question: > > * "WebKit doesn't have a version" > > It does: we are using SVN revision numbers and this is the > authoritative version WebKit developers are using. > > * "The only versioning is done by Safari" > > No, Safari was the first browser to introduce some versioning thus new > browsers had to match to be compatible (e.g. in the user-agent > string). All ports have to version their releases and thus indirectly > WebKit. > > Now back to the 'why' part of your question: WebKit isn't a standalone > project but has to be integrated in a browser or framework which does > provide some versioning. Because this is done outside of WebKit by > different teams with different schedule, it makes more sense to let > the teams pick the versions independently and stick to the versioning > SVN brings. > > Hope it helps, > Julien > -- *Arunprasad Rajkumar* http://in.linkedin.com/in/ararunprasad
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