• ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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…

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      1 year ago

      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.