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Am I misunderstanding what webkit is? QtWebEngine uses chromium, but I thought that necessarily implied a webkit derivative (blink).

• cxr 6y ago
  > Am I misunderstanding what webkit is? Yes.
• toyg 6y ago
  blink is basically a fork of a fork of webkit (which is itself a fork of KHTML). It's in the same family, but different.
  • abrowne 6y ago
    An ostrich and a woodpecker are similar in a lot of ways, both birds descending from a common ancestor. But I don't think you'd confuse them.
    • curlypaul924 6y ago
      My question still stands. If webkit is a bird and gecko is a reptile, then why are there (relatively) so few reptile browsers? Is it easier to embed engines from the webkit family, or are they popular because chrome and safari are popular?
      • toyg 6y ago
        Largely the former. The efforts to make Gecko easily embeddable, started some 15 years ago, have long floundered.