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Safari led to Chrome? Really? Source?
by arthurcolle 8y ago
Safari led to Chrome? Really? Source?
- hugs 8y agoThe Google Chrome Comic, page 12. "WebKit is the open source rendering engine we used for Google Chrome" https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_12.html https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_12.html (WebKit is the rendering engine that powers Safari.)
- arthurcolle 8y agoReally cool comic! Thanks for sharing it. Very useful dive into some details I've managed to not know about until this present moment. Any other internal tooling/stack related comics for useful Google products that are worth mentioning in your opinion?
- AlotOfReading 8y agoApple ported KHTML to Mac OS, calling it Webkit. It was released as part of the initial Safari release in 2003. They had a breakup with KHTML a few years later and open sourced Webkit separately. Webkit then became the basis for Chrome when it was launched by Google, until they forked in turn and made Blink.
- mda 8y agoA browser has many other parts than rendering engine. So it is not fair to say Chrome is derived from webkit or safari. You can say chrome rendering engine was initially based on webkit which was based on khtml. And today that shared parts are quite small in the general picture.
- heavyset_go 8y agoKHMTL was the basis for WebKit in Safari, and WebKit is the rendering engine Chrome uses.
- mda 8y agoChrome forked webkit 5 years ago, it is now called blink and they are already quite different architecturally.