6/1/2023 0 Comments Chromium web browser enginesSo, why does it matter ? It’s only a browser engine, it’s just the way it renders webpages, right ? Surely, it’s easier for developers to deal with the quirks of one engine than messing up their code to contend with two, three, or more different implementations of the same standards ? Absolutely. Some Linux users use Epiphany or other webkit based browsers, but these lag a bit behind in terms of performance and stability. That’s right, every other browser out there depends on Blink (most of the time being based on Chromium, the open source version of Chrome). Mac users have the option to use Safari as well, based on Webkit. What is more important to discuss, I think, is the fact that as of today, you only have two viable choices for browser engines on most platforms: Firefox, with its Gecko engine, and everything else, based on Blink. Wether the engine was the reason of Edge’s alledged failure is not the point here, even though I feel the slow adoption of that browser was due to its graphical association to Internet Explorer (as in “its logo looks exactly the same”), its lack of support for extensions, and its lack of features, plus the fact that it was not update-able separately from the OS, and was shipped in a very hard to use state, thus tarnishing the first impressions of that “New Microsoft Browser”. Seriously, this is Internet Explorer without the oumoded “swoosh”.
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