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 ...

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” ...

If you were secretly hoping that all web browsers would one day give up and adopt the WebKit rendering engine, we've got some bad news for you – Google just crushed those dreams. Google has announced ...

Big news for the web today: Google has announced that it’s going to stop using WebKit as the rendering engine that’s behind displaying web pages in Chrome. Instead, it’s forking WebKit to create its ...

Google’s decision to fork WebKit and launch its own Blink rendering engine came as a surprise when the company made the announcement just over a month ago. Yesterday at the Google I/O developer ...

Google’s decision to abandon open-source web browser engine WebKit for its own mobile rendering engine, Blink, is surprising, expected, tragic, and a godsend — all at once. And it’s also happening ...

Google is taking its ball and going home, forking the open-source WebKit browser rendering engine that Chrome and Safari currently use and that Opera recently said it would start using. Why? Google ...

Now that Google is going its own way and developing its rendering engine independently of the WebKit project, both sides of the split are starting the work of removing all the things they don't ...

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 ...

The big news of the day? Google announces Google Chrome, a WebKit (yes the very same Webkit that Safari uses) based-browser. As you can see from the example to the right, Google’s browser will have ...

Rather than waiting for Microsoft to implement HTML 5, Google has released a plugin for Internet Explorer 8 that injects its own WebKit rendering engine, resulting in a ten fold performance boost for ...

Google announced on Wednesday that it will fork WebKit and transition to a new Web rendering engine for Chrome, known as Blink. With 20+ years of experience covering consumer tech and policy, Chloe ...