Blink is a

browser engine A browser engine (also known as a layout engine or rendering engine) is a core software component of every major web browser. The primary job of a browser engine is to transform HTML documents and other resources of a web page into an interacti ...

developed as part of the

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Chromium Chromium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 element, group 6. It is a steely-grey, Luster (mineralogy), lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal. Chromium ...

project. Blink is by far the most-used browser engine, due to the

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dominance of

Google Chrome Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, an ...

and the fact that many other browsers are based on the Chromium

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. To create Chrome,

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chose to use

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WebKit WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS. WebKit is also used by the PlayStation consoles starting with the PS3, the Tizen mobile operating systems, the Amazon K ...

engine. However, Google needed to make substantial changes to the WebKit code to support its novel multi-

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browser architecture. Over the course of several years, the divergence from Apple's version increased, so Google decided to officially fork its version as Blink in 2013. Blink's name was influenced by two factors: the implication of speed, and a reference to the non-standard blink HTML element, which was never actually supported by Blink. 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 vendor prefixes, including WebKit's; experimental Blink functionality is instead enabled on an opt-in basis.

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* {{Google LLC 2013 software Free layout engines Free software programmed in C++ Google Chrome Software based on WebKit Software using the BSD license Software using the GNU Lesser General Public License

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