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Re:Webkit.js by kolme on Friday June 20, 2014 @09:04PM (#7923733)
> Chrome on iOS offers nothing in the way of additional html5 APIs and is just a new UI on the same old Webkit (to my knowledge).

No, they forked Webkit due to all the browser related #ifdef's they had scattered across the source code. They were diverging to much and damaging the quality of the code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_%28layout_engine%29

Edit: They're still pretty similar, though.

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Re:Webkit.js by matthewbauer on Friday June 20, 2014 @09:17PM (#7923770)
Chrome on iOS doesn't use Blink because Apple doesn't allow it.
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