Blink (web engine)
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
External links
- Blink (web engine) @ Wikipedia
