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Firefox is the only way. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Spudwart to c/[email protected]

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[–] Dapado 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Phrodo_00 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure, but didn't Konqueror switch to qtwebkit at some point? Or was that a different qt-based browser?

[–] clubb 1 points 1 year ago

I think thats falkon

[–] ElPussyKangaroo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see... Interesting.

Does anyone remember Microsoft Edge's original engine? Was that an original base or also a fork of something?

[–] Dapado 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML

[–] ElPussyKangaroo 2 points 1 year ago

I see... Thanks!

I honestly liked the old Edge as well. E Was sad to see it being abandoned.