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[-] spudwart@spudwart.com 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We really need more browser engines floating around.

As of now we really only have 3, Webkit, ~~Firefox~~ Gecko, and ~~Chromium~~ Blink.

Everything is based on these 3. And I know, technically chromium and firefox are both based on webkit, but they're so far gone from webkit they function as their own engines.

[-] Vash63@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Firefox isn't based on WebKit. Maybe you're thinking Safari.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I doubt that's what they meant since Safari currently uses WebKit. But yeah, maybe they meant how WebKit is a fork of KHTML and Chrome is a fork of WebKit.

[-] excitingburp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Ultimately you really only have KHTML (what Webkit was forked from), Gecko, Triton (IE classic), and I can't recall what the new (now dead) engine in IE11 was called. The rest are forks, mostly of Webkit/KHTML.

I guess there's Ladybird and Servo too, but they are a way still from being used as a daily driver.

[-] kib48@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

tbh i think it would be better if there was a single collaborative engine instead, owned by a non-profit company like The Linux Foundation

maybe the W3C could establish their own but idk if they even do anything these days

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[-] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 10 months ago

In this case I still feel like that's an improvement.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

As of now we really only have 3, Webkit, Firefox, and Chromium.

Webkit is the only browser engine in that list; the other 2 are browsers, not engines. Firefox uses the Gecko engine. Chrome/chromium use Blink engine.

[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Gecko came from Netscape. Webkit came from KHTML. Pretty sure Gecko/Firefox are not Webkit based. Blink is though.

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