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by dragonwriter 1627 days ago
> Now my question would be why not WebKit, as that is also easy to embed. There are browsers that use WebKit, just not that many.

Wasn’t part of the WebKit/Blink split that Google cared about supporting non-Apple platforms and Apple didn’t want to anymore, (and the reverse on a number of Apple-priority features), and both sides purged their post-split engine codebases of the stuff they weren’t supporting, making post-split WebKit very much not suited to non-Apple platforms.
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sanxiyn 1626 days ago
This is incorrect. Conflict was over multiprocess architecture, where Google added it as a WebKit port and Apple did a proper redesign and produced WebKit2. WebKit is still extremely portable and non-Apple platforms are first class.
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dragonwriter 1626 days ago
I thought platform support was part of it, too, but I must have been mixing up the abandonment of non-Apple-platform Safari with the Blink/WebKit fork.
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shp0ngle 1626 days ago
Ah, that might be it.

Quick googling (not any in-depth knowledge) tells me that WebKit is for Linux too, I cannot find out anything about Windows.

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