Apple WebKit in the context of "Google Chrome"

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⭐ Core Definition: Apple WebKit

WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS. WebKit is also used by the PlayStation consoles starting with the PS3, the Tizen mobile operating systems, the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, Nintendo consoles starting with the 3DS Internet Browser, GNOME Web, and the discontinued BlackBerry Browser.

WebKit started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE, and has since been further developed by KDE contributors, Apple, Google, Nokia, Bitstream, BlackBerry, Sony, Igalia, and others. WebKit supports macOS, Windows, Linux, and various other Unix-like operating systems. On April 3, 2013, Google announced that it had forked WebCore, a component of WebKit, to be used in future versions of Google Chrome under the name Blink. Since version 15 in May 2013, Opera web browser has dropped its own Presto layout engine in favor of WebKit as implemented by Google in the Chromium project.

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👉 Apple WebKit in the context of Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and also for Android, where it is the default browser. The browser is also the main component of ChromeOS, on which it serves as the platform for web applications.

Most of Chrome's source code comes from Google's free and open-source software project known as Chromium, but Chrome is licensed as proprietary freeware. WebKit was the original rendering engine, but Google eventually forked it to create the Blink engine; all Chrome variants except iOS used Blink as of 2017.

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Browser engine → Apple Inc. → Safari (web browser) → Web browser → IOS → IPadOS → PlayStation → Tizen → Amazon Kindle → E-book → Nintendo video game consoles → Internet Browser (Nintendo 3DS) → GNOME Web → BlackBerry Browser → Fork (software development) → KHTML → KJS (software) → KDE → Google → Nokia → Bitstream Inc. → BlackBerry Limited → Sony → Igalia → MacOS → Microsoft Windows → Linux → Unix-like → Google Chrome → Blink (browser engine) → Opera (web browser) →