The great browser shake-up of 2013 (Tech Republic)

Cyberfox007 · April 4, 2013, 2:26am

[url=http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australia/the-great-browser-shake-up-of-2013/1761] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australia/the-great-browser-shake-up-of-2013/1761[/url]

“Takeaway: In a jam-packed 24 hours, Google announces it is forking WebKit, and Samsung teams up with Mozilla to develop a new engine.”

Important browser development news.

_{Edit: Fixed link – Sal Amander}

salvatoreg · April 4, 2013, 2:33am

All I can say is… WOW! :o

Radaghast · April 4, 2013, 2:52am

JoWa · April 4, 2013, 7:04am

Seany007 · April 4, 2013, 8:19am

Interesting…

Radaghast · April 5, 2013, 9:14am

“Chrome 28 will be the first blinking release,”

JoWa · April 5, 2013, 4:20pm

Blink is said to already be in Chromium, but chrome://version for Chromium 28.0.1467.0 says WebKit 537.36 ([at-bypass]147606).

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JoWa · April 5, 2013, 6:35pm

Search for blink and get results.

JoWa · April 7, 2013, 6:49am

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Radaghast · April 7, 2013, 7:17am

Any new/interesting flags?

JoWa · April 7, 2013, 8:03am

Not in 28, but in
25: --enable-opus-playback (Opus)
26: --enable-vp9-playback (VP9)
27: --enable-spdy31 (SPDY 3.1)

JoWa · April 7, 2013, 6:15pm

Adjust about:version to read "Blink" rather than "WebKit".

JoWa · April 8, 2013, 6:50pm

JoWa · April 16, 2013, 5:28am

JoWa · May 23, 2013, 6:01pm

Blink is now in Chrome beta, as the beta-channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.20.

JoWa · June 18, 2013, 5:05am

Blink is now in Chrome stable, for Linux. Stable Channel Update

JoWa · July 9, 2013, 5:31pm

Blink is now in Chrome stable, also for Windows and Macintosh. Stable Channel Update

SanyaIV · July 9, 2013, 9:51pm

Oooohhhh 64-bit, is this also for Chrome or only Chromium? And as a follow up question, what’s the difference between them? ???

JoWa · July 10, 2013, 4:56am

Currently in Chromium, eventually in Chrome too.

Chromium is the open source browser-code which Chrome, Dragon, Opera &c are based upon.

JoWa · September 13, 2013, 6:22am

Qt switches from WebKit to Blink/Chromium: Introducing the Qt WebEngine