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Safari is just Webkit like Chrome and Edge. The only real competition is Firefox.
by ginko 5y ago
Safari is just Webkit like Chrome and Edge. The only real competition is Firefox.
- doublerabbit 5y agoWith Google providing Firefox with life-support.
- vlovich123 5y agoTechnically Chrome forked off WebKit a few years back and Edge (and most other browsers) use that. I do wonder how different Blink and WebKit are at this point considering there’s quite a bit of manpower behind Blink.
- baybal2 5y agoBlink gets many times more manpower than WebKit, it is also used by new IE, which assures Google the veto power on any new browser API.
- agust 5y agoAny web developer would tell you that nowadays Blink (Google's WebKit fork) and WebKit are very different. Blink has more features than WebKit, and less bugs. So with Gecko (Firefox's engine) we really have three different browser engines nowadays.
- tremon 5y agoFirefox' engine is called Quantum nowadays. Not sure how much of the original Gecko code still exists in its depths though.
- ksec 5y agoThe engine is still called Gecko. Quantum was the project name that try ( and succeeded ) to bring components from Servo to Gecko. Where Servo was the experimental engine written in Rust.
- tomxor 5y ago> Safari is just Webkit like Chrome and Edge This incorrect, Blink (chromium) forked from webkit in 2013. Blink has significantly diverged from webkit over the last decade, they are very different layout engines today. Also this only applies to the layout engine, the JS engines and web APIs are entirely different. They are pretty much completely different browser engines today.