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Let’s say there’s a hypothetical world where Safari had 90% market share like Chrome does. Would the fact that WebKit is open source make a difference? Chrome i
by jsjohnst 3y ago
Let’s say there’s a hypothetical world where Safari had 90% market share like Chrome does. Would the fact that WebKit is open source make a difference? Chrome is to Chromium as Safari is to WebKit after all.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoChrome is to Blink as Safari is to WebKit. If Safari had 90% market share because it was a great browser available on every OS promoted on some of the most visited websites (which, in this thought experiment, would be owned by Apple), while people were able to choose their browser on iOS, and browser vendors were able to choose the browser engine and if a version of Safari without sync were open source, that would make a difference.
- summerlight 3y agoTwo major differences: Chromium itself is a standalone browser, not just a rendering engine. You need to compare Blink to WebKit. Also WebKit is the only engine allowed in the App Store and iOS. There's no such limitation in the Play Store and Android.
- jsjohnst 3y ago> Chromium itself is a standalone browser, not just a rendering engine. WebKit has always been and still currently is a standalone browser. WebKit even has a standalone browser version for Linux too.