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'''Blink''' is a '''web browser engine''' developed as part of the Chromium project by The Chromium Project with contributions from [[Google]], [[Opera Software ASA]], Intel, Samsung and others.

== Description ==

It was first announced in April 2013.

It is a fork of the [[WebCore]] component of [[WebKit]] and is used in Chrome starting at version 28, Opera (15+), Amazon Silk and other Chromium-based browsers and frameworks.

Much of [[WebCore]]'s code is used for features which Chrome implements differently (such as [[sandboxing]] and the multi-process model).

These parts were removed from the Blink fork, which made it simpler, and gave greater flexibility for adding new features.

The fork will also deprecate [[vendor prefixes]]; experimental functionality will instead be enabled on an opt-in basis.

Aside from these planned changes, Blink currently remains relatively similar to [[WebCore]].

By commit count, Google has been the largest contributor to the [[WebKit]] code base since late 2009.

Blink's naming was influenced by the non-standard presentational [[blink HTML tag]], which was introduced by [[Netscape Navigator]], and supported by [[Presto]] and [[Gecko]]-based browsers until August 2013.

== See also ==

* [[Web browser]]
* [[Web browser engine]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(web_engine) Blink (web engine)] @ Wikipedia

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