Blink (web engine)

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Blink is a web browser engine developed as part of the Chromium project[2] by The Chromium Project with contributions from Google, Opera Software ASA, Intel, Samsung and others.[3][4] It was first announced in April 2013.[5]

Engine

It is a fork of the WebCore component of WebKit[6] and is used in Chrome starting at version 28,[7][8] Opera (15+),[7] 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.[9] Aside from these planned changes, Blink currently remains relatively similar to WebCore.[8] By commit count, Google has been the largest contributor to the WebKit code base since late 2009.[10]

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.[2][11][12]

Frameworks

Several projects exist to turn Chromium’s Blink into a reusable software framework for other developers:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Log of /releases/28.0.1463.0/DEPS". 
  2. ^ a b Lardinois, Frederic (2013-04-03). "Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine That Will Soon Power Chrome And Chrome OS". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-11-25. 
  3. ^ "Contents of /trunk/src/AUTHORS". chromium.org. 
  4. ^ "Google, Opera Fork WebKit. Samsung Joins Firefox to Push Servo". infoq.com. April 2013. 
  5. ^ "Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project". The Chromium Blog. Retrieved 3 April 2013. 
  6. ^ "Which webkit revision is Blink forking from?". blink-dev mailing list. Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  7. ^ a b "Blink". QuirksBlog. April 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013. 
  8. ^ "Blink Developer FAQ". The Chromium Projects. Retrieved 22 October 2014. 
  9. ^ Siracusa, John (2013-04-12). "Hypercritical: Code Hard or Go Home". Hypercritical.co. Retrieved 2013-06-15. 
  10. ^ Kobie, Nicole (2013-08-07). "Firefox 23 finally kills "blink" tag". PC Pro. Retrieved 2013-11-25. 
  11. ^ Shankland, Stephen (2013-04-03). "Google parts ways with Apple over WebKit, launches Blink". CNet. Retrieved 2013-11-25. 
  12. ^ Hallgrimur Bjornsson. "Introducing HTML5 extensions". Adobe Systems. 
  13. ^ "Adobe Edge Animate Team Blog". Adobe Systems. 
  14. ^ "Open Source @ Spotify.com". 
  15. ^ "CEF integration". 
  16. ^ "Chromium Embedded Framework". 
  17. ^ a b "Developer diary: Creating a desktop client for Conclave". 10×10 Room. 
  18. ^ "Qt WebEngine Overview". Qt Project. 

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