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[-] Dapado@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] exu@feditown.com 18 points 2 years ago

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

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Holdup idk webdev but if I got this right.

KDE made KHTML for Konqueror.
Apple used KHTML for WebKit.
Chrome used WebKit for Chromium.
Qt used Chromium for QtWebEngine.
KDE used QtWebEngine for Falkon.

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