This article compares

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 ...

s. Some of these engines have shared origins. For example, the

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 was created by forking the

KHTML KHTML is a discontinued browser engine that was developed by the KDE project. It originated as the engine of the Konqueror browser in the late 1990s, but active development ceased in 2016. It was officially discontinued in 2023. Built on the ...

engine in 2001. Then, in 2013, a modified version of WebKit was officially forked as the Blink engine.

General information

Support

These tables summarize what stable engines support.

Operating systems

The

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

s that engines can run on without emulation.

Image formats

Media formats

Typography

Other items

Notes

References

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