Tim Bray on the awful hash-bang links that have been popping up lately.

"those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs."

"WebKit2 is a new API layer for WebKit designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate process from the application UI. This model is very similar to what Google Chrome offers, with the major difference being that we have built the process split model directly into the framework, allowing other clients of WebKit to use it."

Having a Web browser that can't compete with those on the iPhone and Android, webOS (and probably Blackberry soon) is a really big problem for Windows Phone 7 Series.

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Great to see companies like Google trying to push the Web forward.