• mreiner@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Technically, WebKit is Apple’s rendering engine (Safari).

    Google uses Blink, which is a fork of WebKit, but is its own thing now.

    So, you can still use Safari without directly contributing to Google’s de facto rendering engine monopoly.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you, I used to know the rendering engines fairly well a few years ago, but I’m out of the loop now.

      What about WebView? It’s the rendering engine used in Android, closely related to Blink I assume.

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        1 year ago

        I honestly wasn’t super familiar with WebView until you asked!

        It looks like WebView is a stripped-down browser, more than anything else. It can leverage different rendering engines depending on the platform, and on Android it looks like it leverages Blink just like Chrome.