Re: WebKit?

From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: WebKit?
Date	2017-04-26 03:24 +0200
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Message-ID	<2402589.fPp7YZAQYY@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
References	<WebKit-20170426000722@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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Stefan Ram wrote:

>   In a book it is written:
    ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
When will you learn to *cite*?
 
>       »Ever since Apple released the browser engine behind its
>       Safari Web browser as open source, WebKit and the mobile
>       web have been joined at the hip.«
> 
>   Is it true that WebKit is so essential for the mobile web?

Yes.
 
>   For example, in the sense that to test a Web app, one should
>   first and foremost use WebKit?

No, because, through Chromium (and its use in Chrome, Opera 15+, and Amazon 
Silk), Blink has the greatest market share now, on Desktop *and* Mobile.  
But Blink is a fork of WebCore, the layout engine in WebKit.

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