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It is worth reminding that Google Chrome and Chromium no longer use WebKit but Blink. https://www.chromium.org/blink https://www.chromium.org/blink
by omeid2 7y ago
It is worth reminding that Google Chrome and Chromium no longer use WebKit but Blink.
https://www.chromium.org/blink https://www.chromium.org/blink
- winrid 7y agoWow, thanks. Somehow I missed that. Things move so fast.
- Fnoord 7y agoGoogle forked WebKit (itself a fork of KDE Konqueror's KHTML). Blink is from 2013. [1] I wonder how source incompatible these are? Is it difficult to backport? Because KHTML was LGPL the source must remain available. Or is it just that these are API incompatible? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)
- jefftk 7y agoAfter the fork both WebKit and Blink were able to delete large amounts of no-longer-shared code. Not half the codebase, but still quite a lot. The fork was a recognition of their having been growing apart for a long time. Both groups still watch each other's changes, but it's very rare that a patch would apply cleanly.
- om2 7y agoIt is still possible to make changes that are mostly reusable for both, but it takes some effort, and some parts (JS engine, multiprocess architecture) are so different that you just have to write it twice.
- randall 7y agoWow, it's been 6 years??? That's surprising.
- _verandaguy 7y agoBlink and you'll miss it.