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Doesn't Apple use Webkit, same as Google? Isn't that functionally the same, except for Google's optimizations?

• bdisraeli 12y ago
  No Google forked Webkit into Blink[1] about two years ago. [1] http://www.chromium.org/blink http://www.chromium.org/blink
• lobster_johnson 12y ago
  Chrome no longer uses Webkit; it uses a fork called Blink. (Technically a fork of WebCore, the core of WebKit.) It's similar, but has diverged since the fork.
• function_seven 12y ago
  Not really anymore. Google forked part of WebKit to create Blink[1], and both Safari and Chrome have their own optimizations. I'm not sure how close to each other these rendering engines are. I imagine they're still very very similar, but now that the fork has occurred, time will tell how divergent (or not) they become. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(layout_engine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(layout_engine)
• arfar 12y ago
  They actually forked WebKit and use Blink now, but they obviously still share a lot of the same code as the fork is relatively recent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_%28layout_engine%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_%28layout_engine%29
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• eloisant 12y ago
  Even when they were using WebKit, it was never the same version, and they had patches. So there never was a unique WebKit rendering engine.
• mg1982 12y ago
  They forked webkit, actually, and use something called Blink. Check this out for a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ