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By commit count, Google was the largest contributor to the WebKit project from late 2009 until the fork in 2013. One of the first changes of the new fork was to deprecate CSS
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browser architecture. Over the course of several years, the divergence from Apple's version increased, so Google decided to officially
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Blink's name was influenced by two factors: the implication of speed, and a reference to the non-standard
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engine. However, Google needed to make substantial changes to the WebKit code to support its novel multi-
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project. Blink is by far the most-used browser engine, due to the
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Free and open-source browser engine of the Chromium project
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Blink layout engine
Blink (SIP client)
Blink (disambiguation)
Developer(s)
Chromium
Repository
chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/third_party/blink/
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Type
Browser engine
License
BSD
LGPLv2.1
www.chromium.org/blink/
browser engine
free and open-source
Chromium
market share
Google Chrome
many other
code
Google
Apple
WebKit
process
fork
blink HTML element
vendor prefixes
Free and open-source software portal

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