Google just announced that it is forking WebKit and launching this fork as Blink. As Google describes it, Blink is “an inclusive open source community” and “a new rendering engine based on WebKit” ...

Google announced last night that it’s going to stop using WebKit—the rendering engine currently used by the likes of Safari and Chrome to display web pages—in favor of its own solution which will be ...

Google and Opera had announced that they will be moving their browsers away from the open source WebKit rendering standard to the new forked, Google-developed Blink standard in the future. The move ...

Yesterday came the surprise news that Google was going to kick Apple's WebKit rendering engine to the curb and replace it with a new open source rendering engine called Blink, based on WebKit.

While some people may have been surprised that Google has finally made Blink, its own fork of the popular WebKit Web browser engine, in Web developer circles this move came as no surprise. As Adam ...

Even advanced hardware-based protections can be rendered ineffective in the face of a sophisticated attacker,” wrote Boris Larin of Kaspersky’s GReAT Team; a message all too relevant to Apple’s recent ...

Big news for the web today: Google has announced that it’s going to stop using WebKit as the rendering engine that’s behind displaying web pages in Chrome. Instead, it’s forking WebKit to create its ...

If you were secretly hoping that all web browsers would one day give up and adopt the WebKit rendering engine, we've got some bad news for you – Google just crushed those dreams. Google has announced ...

The big news of the day? Google announces Google Chrome, a WebKit (yes the very same Webkit that Safari uses) based-browser. As you can see from the example to the right, Google’s browser will have ...

Now that Google is going its own way and developing its rendering engine independently of the WebKit project, both sides of the split are starting the work of removing all the things they don't ...

After a marriage lasting almost 12 years, Google has decided to bid farewell to the WebKit rendering engine, upon which its open-source Chromium browser project is based. In its place, Google welcomes ...

Google announced today that the company is forking the WebKit rendering engine to create its own web rendering engine called 'Blink'. Google had been the using Apple-initiated WebKit project to power ...