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Blink is a fork of Webkit. So while it may be sufficiently different thank Webkit in the future, I'm not sure how meaningfully different it is today. Especially

by crabasa 11y ago

Blink is a fork of Webkit. So while it may be sufficiently different thank Webkit in the future, I'm not sure how meaningfully different it is today. Especially from the perspective of a web developer or user.

spankalee 11y ago
The fork happened 2.5 years ago and there is significant divergence already.
kijiki 11y ago
And everyone but Gecko is a fork of KHTML. When do you draw the line and allow forks their own identity?
- pcwalton 11y ago
  Not Trident.
  - i336_ 11y ago
    Yeah, that split off NCSA Mosaic. Gecko (aka Netscape) was a ground-up rewrite of the engine (it had to be due to licensing issues).