WebKit is a rendering engine which is one of the major components of a web browser. Chrome/Chromium was released in 2008 using a modified version of WebKit as its rendering engine. Eventually in 2013 they created a fork of WebKit called Blink, which is the current rendering engine for Chrome/Chromium.
Wha- hold up… I’m not sure I understand…
Chrome was based on WebKit?
I’m not aware about the old stuff as much so if someone could fill me in…
WebKit is a rendering engine which is one of the major components of a web browser. Chrome/Chromium was released in 2008 using a modified version of WebKit as its rendering engine. Eventually in 2013 they created a fork of WebKit called Blink, which is the current rendering engine for Chrome/Chromium.
In more history, WebKit is a fork of KHTML. That’s the reason why WebKit itself is open source.
Apparently there hasn’t been active maintenance since 2016 though and it’s officially dead since this year. RIP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
Remember Konqueror? That’s KDE’s web browser, which still uses KHTML. I should try it out again and see how it’s held up.
I’m not sure, but didn’t Konqueror switch to qtwebkit at some point? Or was that a different qt-based browser?