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There are exactly four major engines, each of which has a flagship browser: Blink/Chrome, WebKit/Safari, Gecko/Firefox, and EdgeHTML/Edge.
by pcwalton 9y ago
There are exactly four major engines, each of which has a flagship browser: Blink/Chrome, WebKit/Safari, Gecko/Firefox, and EdgeHTML/Edge.
- BerislavLopac 9y agoWouldn't introduction of Servo make it five? Gecko is not going away yet, IIRC it's used in some browsers, like Pale Moon. https://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.palemoon.org/
- Sylos 9y agoServo is not a major browser engine. It's a small research project. And Firefox continues to use Gecko. It has some bits and pieces from Servo in it and the Mozilla marketing team has dubbed everything "Quantum" for the Firefox 57 release to communicate that lots has changed, but it is still Gecko.
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- Manishearth 9y agoI work on Servo, I wouldn't count it here. It doesn't support everything to make the web work; i.e. you can't use it as a daily driver (for some sites, perhaps, but not all). We're getting there.
- Endy 9y agoThat's fine that there are four "major" engines. I'm looking for a minor one anyway, whose dev does not need nor want to become part of a major flagship product, or who at least isn't tied to Mozilla or Google. The lack of real development in the browser field is kind of appalling.
- rlanday 9y agoDo you think Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft aren’t doing any “real development”? Did you miss all the stuff about Firefox Quantum? Or Microsoft Edge being released for the first time only a few years ago?
- Endy 9y agoFirefox Quantum, and just about everything to do with the browser since Firefox first introduced both their rapid release cycle and Australis, have left me cold. As far as the others, sure there's development - all in a negative direction away from simplicity and into a grotesque and bloated Web into one entirely built on corporate marketing ideas.