Google announced this week that it is going to replace the open source WebKit browser rendering engine with a fork of WebKit’s WebCore component known as Blink. The move means that Google and Apple will no longer share development of WebKit. WebCore is a layout, rendering and document object model library. Blink is implemented on top of the Chromium Content module, and so must run in Chromium. This also means it can’t be ported directly to other platforms, but must be ported in the Chromium Embedded Framework instead.
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In A Blink, Google Ditches WebKit Browser Engine
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 5, 2013 06:00 AMGoogle announced this week that it is going to replace the open source WebKit browser rendering engine with a fork of WebKit’s WebCore component known as Blink. The move means that Google and Apple will no longer share development of WebKit. WebCore is a layout, rendering and document object model library. Blink is implemented on top of the Chromium Content module, and so must run in Chromium. This also means it can’t be ported directly to other platforms, but must be ported in the Chromium Embedded Framework instead.