Blink (web engine)

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Blink
Developer(s) The Chromium Project
Google, Opera Software, Intel, Samsung
Initial release April 3, 2013 (2013-04-03)[1]
Written in C++
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Layout engine
License Three-clause BSD and GNU LGPL v2.1
Website chromium.org/blink

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

Blink 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "Developer diary: Creating a desktop client for Conclave". 10×10 Room.
  18. ↑ "Qt WebEngine Overview". Qt Project.

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