Blink (browser engine)

Blink
Developer(s)The Chromium Project
Initial release3 April 2013 (2013-04-03)[1]
Repository
Written inC++
TypeBrowser engine
LicenseBSD and LGPLv2.1
Websitewww.chromium.org/blink/

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.

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]

  1. ^ Fisher, Darin (5 September 2008). "Chrome <3s WebKit". blog.chromium.org. Retrieved 12 March 2024.

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