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Re:Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardi... by stingraycharles on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:32AM (#27404379)
But they have diverged so long ago, they are for all practical purposes different rendering engines. It’s not the same deal as, say, Chrome and Edge.
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Re:Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardi... by filmgirlcw on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:52AM (#27404541)
Right, Blink and WebKit are no longer reliably similar, which is why when devs don’t test on WebKit (to say nothing of Gecko), rendering stuff can reliably break.

They share a ton of history but the split happened eight years ago and A LOT of code has changed. In fairness, WebKit (and thus, Safari) has later adopted some of the same changes, but they really aren’t synonymous anymore.

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