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[-] KeraKali@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago

I'm gonna need some names because I only recognize like, two.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 83 points 5 months ago

Going from lawful to chaotic, good to evil, we have:

  • Gecko (Firefox, Seamonkey, and derivatives)
  • Servo
  • Libweb (Ladybird)
  • Links2 (as well as ELinks and other forks)
  • WebKit (used in a lot of stuff, namely Safari and GNOME Web)
  • Goanna (Pale Moon and Basilisk)
  • QtWebEngine (Konqueror, Falkon, and qutebrowser)
  • Blink (Chromium, Brave, and derivatives)
  • Trident (Internet Explorer, old versions of Maxthon, old versions of Avant, and any homemade browser created with Visual Studio).
[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 51 points 5 months ago

(until they get a new lead dev, Ladybird is definitely not any type of “Good”)

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 26 points 5 months ago

100%, this is either uninformed or some apologia

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

What's going on? I've seen this new browser engine referenced recently a decent bit but I have no info beyond 'it's new and exists'.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 42 points 5 months ago

the lead dev is a freeze peach absolutist. he's said some ignorant shit about trans people and when people said "hey, let's adjust this language" he was like "let's not get political"

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

That's unfortunate :(

[-] cyberblob@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

What exactly has been said?

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

(The engine itself is fine though)

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Huh, I didn't know MSHTML as used in IE was also called Trident. I thought Trident was specifically early Edge before they switched to Blink.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

The Edge engine before Blink was called "EdgeHTML".

[-] ChrisG@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

If I recall correctly, Project Trident was M$'s ambitious attempt at a new proprietary browser to replace IE before abandoning it and just reskinning Chrome as 'Edge'

[-] drosophila 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Where does Dillo fit into this?

Its got cookies disabled by default, no support for JavaScript, and only partial support for CSS. Just as god intended.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Same box as Links, I think; or maybe the same box as Servo or Ladybird would fit better...

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Is there any Servo-based browser? If not, it should be called Serval.

[-] Gormadt 9 points 5 months ago

Also a quick cliff notes on what each is would be greatly appreciated

I only recognize the Chromium icon...

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

These are browser engines, or at least software for rendering HTML but not necessarily the actual browser. I don’t know them all, but top left, Gecko, is the engine for Mozilla, center is Web Kit for Safari, bottom center is Chromium for Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc., and bottom right is Trident, the old engine for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

[-] amino 6 points 5 months ago

what's the difference between the engine and the browser itself? is it similar to the Linux kernel vs the Debian user space?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

The engine makes it so HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. are downloaded and turned into pixels you can look at. The browser embeds an engine for that purpose, but then also has a URL bar, tabs, bookmarks, a history feature and so on.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago
[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

These are browser engines, or at least software for rendering HTML but not necessarily the actual browser.

That's why this post makes no sense. There's no "evil" rendering engine. They should be judged by technical parameters.

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