As of now we really only have 3, Webkit, Firefox, and Chromium.
Webkit is the only browser engine in that list. Firefox uses the Gecko engine. Chrome/chromium use Blink engine.
spudwart@spudwart.com 5 months ago
We really need more browser engines floating around.
As of now we really only have 3, Webkit, Firefox, and Chromium.
Everything is based on these 3. And I know, technically chromium and firefox are both based on webkit, but they’re so far gone from webkit they function as their own engines.
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Vash63@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Firefox isn’t based on WebKit. Maybe you’re thinking Safari.
ripcord@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I doubt that’s what they meant since Safari currently uses WebKit. Maybe they meant how WebKit is a fork of KHTML and Chrome is a fork of WebKit.
excitingburp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ultimately you really only have KHTML (what Webkit was forked from), Gecko, Triton (IE classic), and I can’t recall what the new (now dead) engine in IE11 was called. The rest are forks, mostly of Webkit/KHTML.
I guess there’s Ladybird and Servo too, but they are a way still from being used as a daily driver.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We really need more browser engines floating around.
No don’t
Adanisi@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Yes, we do. The lack of competition is letting Google consolidate power.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think their point is that it’s going to fragment things for web developers and make stuff more difficult to manage.
ripcord@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not if things are written to standards.
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Gecko came from Netscape. Webkit came from KHTML. Pretty sure Gecko/Firefox are not Webkit based. Blink is though.
kib48@lemm.ee 5 months ago
tbh i think it would be better if there was a single collaborative engine instead, owned by a non-profit company like The Linux Foundation
maybe the W3C could establish their own but idk if they even do anything these days
piecat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Embrace extend extinguish
It’s almost already too late at this point
mob@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not going to lie, I really hate when the internet gets a new favorite phrase. Destroys discussion on the subjects and feels like it’s a race for commenters to say the hit phrase.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lemmy is chock full of stupid people on the right team for the wrong reasons. They treat switching to Linux and FF the same way someone would declare they gave their life to Jesus Christ.
Most of them can’t even explain why something is good or bad without resorting to the catch phrase of the day. “Enshittification”, “EEE”, “Chrome bad cuz capitalism or something, gib updoots.”
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If what you were gonna say is quashed by people knowing the big corpo tricks and treachery, then chances are what you had to say served no interests but corpo interest to begin with.
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO GOOGLE!!!
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
PLAY STUPID GAMES,
phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’s not. In the late 90s it was pretty much just IE after Netscape died. Mozilla came from the ashes.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Literally. It was originally built on the Netscape engine before making Gecko and transitioning to that.
kib48@lemm.ee 5 months ago
extinguishing Chromium is the goal, isn’t it?
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Relevant xkcd
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
In this case I still feel like that’s an improvement.