Blink (browser engine)
Open source browser engine of the Chromium project From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blink is a browser engine developed as part of the free and open-source Chromium project. Blink is by far the most-used browser engine, due to the market share dominance of Google Chrome and the fact that many other browsers are based on the Chromium code.
| Developer(s) | The Chromium Project |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 3 April 2013[1] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Type | Browser engine |
| License | BSD and LGPLv2.1 |
| Website | www |
To create Chrome, Google chose to use Apple's WebKit engine.[2] However, Google needed to make substantial changes to the WebKit code to support its novel multi-process browser architecture.[1][3] Over the course of several years, the divergence from Apple's version increased, so Google decided to officially fork its version as Blink in 2013.[1][3]
Blink's name was influenced by two factors: the implication of speed, and a reference to the non-standard blink HTML element,[4][5] which was never actually supported by Blink.[6]
By commit count, Google was the largest contributor to the WebKit project from late 2009 until the fork in 2013.[7] One of the first changes of the new fork was to deprecate CSS vendor prefixes, including WebKit's; experimental Blink functionality is instead enabled on an opt-in basis.[8]
See also
- Comparison of browser engines
- V8, the Chromium JavaScript engine
References
External links
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