Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
by jwells89 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:57PM
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There were substantial differences even from day one. As I recall one of the differences of opinion that was a driving cause of the fork was the multiprocess model; WebKit team wanted that to be part of the framework, letting any WebKit-embedding app get it for “free”, whereas the Blink team wanted it to be part of Chromium with non-Chromium users of Blink needing to bring their own multiprocess.
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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:13PM
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> with non-Chromium users of Blink needing to bring their own multiprocess.
Isn't that what happened anyway? The non-Chromium dists of Blink like Electron and WebView2 both employ the same multi-process approach as Chrome.exe (and my RAM availability is suffering for it...)
Electron bundles Chromium, not Blink directly. Believe this is true of WebView2 too but am not well-versed in Windows internals.
In fact I’m not aware of any major non-Chromium usages of Blink, except maybe in Qt (where it replaced WebKit a few years ago) but I’m not sure about that either.
Nah, QtWebEngine is using Chromium, not Blink directly