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” ...

Both Chrome and Safari will move faster when uncoupled from each other, Google argues. But it's not just about technology: Social issues also factored into the schism. A years-long marriage of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...