@notenoughbutter @Resol, and WebKit is a fork from KHtml made by the German KDE.
Blink is the most used engine, because it's the most compatible with current web standarts, even somewhat more than Gecko. If Apple's Safari insist in it's WebKit, the most outdated engine, it's become the new IE in a near Future.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Named as such because, like Weeping Angels, if you blink you'll be sent back to a society without enforcement of antitrust laws

[–] mansauce@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

actually the name of Blink engine is quite interesting, it was named after the non-standard html blink tag and ironically it never supported it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)#Naming

[–] Zeragamba@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't understand this argument about antitrust laws. As far as i know Google hasn't done anything to block other companies from making their own search engines or browsers. Nor does Value and Steam, nor Microsoft and Windows.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

nor Microsoft and Windows.

Come on, this is ridiculous.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

WEI checks if your browser and system is "genuine" and "unmodified" before letting you access any content "protected" by it, which inevitably leads to smaller and custom mods that don't fit their predetermined criteria for "genuineness" being locked out, which in turn forces you to use Google (and Microsoft and Apple, they’re in on it too) products in order to access certain content and eventually the entire internet, just as surely as it's almost completely impossible to avoid their Google Analytics malware.

And before you say "that's a ridiculous slippery slope fallacy! That'll never happen!", Logitech is already requiring you to go to a website that will only open in Chromium browsers in order to pair devices with the Logitech Unifying Receiver.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for reminding me of what the hell it was called