• 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.