• LeTak
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    1041 year ago

    Chrome was not always based on chromeium. Chrome was based on Apple WebKit until 2013 when they forked WebKit and made the Blink engine.

    • @Dapado@lemmy.world
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      431 year ago

      Chromium was still the base before the WebKit/Blink fork. Chrome and Chromium were released simultaneously in 2008.

    • @fidodo@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Chromium has always existed. Originally it was wrapping web kit and later they forked web kit into blink and diverged from Web kit. Chromium is a level above the engine.

    • ElPussyKangaroo
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      81 year ago

      Wha- hold up… I’m not sure I understand…

      Chrome was based on WebKit?

      I’m not aware about the old stuff as much so if someone could fill me in…

      • @Dapado@lemmy.world
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        171 year ago

        WebKit is a rendering engine which is one of the major components of a web browser. Chrome/Chromium was released in 2008 using a modified version of WebKit as its rendering engine. Eventually in 2013 they created a fork of WebKit called Blink, which is the current rendering engine for Chrome/Chromium.

        • exu
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          181 year ago

          In more history, WebKit is a fork of KHTML. That’s the reason why WebKit itself is open source.

          Apparently there hasn’t been active maintenance since 2016 though and it’s officially dead since this year. RIP

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML

          • @seitanic
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            121 year ago

            Remember Konqueror? That’s KDE’s web browser, which still uses KHTML. I should try it out again and see how it’s held up.