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Blink is a browser engine developed as part of the free and open-source Chromium project. Blink is by far the most-used browser engine, due to the market share dominance of Google Chrome and the fact that many other browsers are based on the Chromium code. To create Chrome, Google chose to use Apple's WebKit engine. [2]
Engine Status [a] Steward License Embedded in WebKit: Active Apple: GNU LGPL, BSD-style: Safari browser, plus all browsers for iOS; [3] GNOME Web, Konqueror, Orion: Blink: Active Google: GNU LGPL, BSD-style: Google Chrome and all other Chromium-based browsers including Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Huawei Browser, Samsung Browser, and Opera ...
Web Platform for Embedded (WPE) is a WebKit port designed for embedded applications; it further improves the architecture by splitting the basic rendering functional blocks into a general-purpose routines library (libwpe), platform backends, and engine itself (called WPE WebKit). The GTK port, albeit self-contained, can be built to use these ...
Google believes that Chromium's multi-process approach has added too much complexity for both the browser and WebKit itself, so it's creating a separate, simpler fork named Blink. Although the new ...
Primarily the focus will be on stripping away unnecessary code and files to streamline the rendering engine specifically for Chrome. Obviously, this won't prevent other developers from using Blink ...
It uses asynchronous messaging to communicate between the main application process and one or more render processes (Blink + V8 JavaScript engine). As of July of 2022, it no longer supports PPAPI plugins due to removal of PPAPI, legacy Chrome Apps, and Native Client (NaCl) support from the upstream Chromium project. [ 7 ]
In 2013, Chromium's modified WebKit rendering engine was officially forked as the Blink engine. [22] [23] Other changes in 2013 were the ability to reset user profiles and new browser extension APIs. [70] Tab indicators for audio and webcam usage were also added, as was automatic blocking of files detected as malware. [71]
Microsoft's switch to Blink as Edge's engine has faced mixed reception. The move increases the consistency of web platform compatibility between major browsers. For this reason, the move has attracted criticism, as it reduces diversity in the overall web browser market and increases the influence of Google on the overall browser market by ...