WebKit has met its match, as the prototype Blink schools Apple's well-worn browser engine and hints at the future of web ...
A new experimental effort in Chrome aims to run the proper Blink engine on iOS instead of Apple’s required WebKit engine. On iOS, all web browsers, including third ...
The starting code base for what will become Chrome 28 is in place, and programmers are already updating it. Blink's birth was not without labor pains, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...
A years-long marriage of convenience that linked Google and Apple browser technologies is ending in divorce A years-long marriage of convenience that linked Google and Apple browser technologies is ...
Apple's App Store policies require that the Chrome browser on iOS uses the WebKit engine rather than the usual Blink, but that isn't stopping Google from indulging in ...
A major under-the-hood change might be coming to Chrome for iPhone. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac Google is tinkering with a version of its Chrome web browser for iPhone that does not use the WebKit ...
In the EU, browser manufacturers are now allowed to use their own engines – but not in the USA. This costs users performance, ...
Now Microsoft engineers have documented a performance tax – the performance hit that iOS users today endure because Apple requires iOS browsers, with theoretical exceptions, to use the WebKit browser ...
The big picture: Regulators and developers have long criticized some of Apple's restrictions on iOS, including requiring all web browsers to use Apple's WebKit engine ...
For years, web browsers that exist on Apple's iOS have been restricted to its WebKit browser engine. Despite this, both Mozilla and Google are now planning for when this rule is changed. Ever since ...