Engines
Browser engines (also known as layout engines or rendering engines) transform the bare code of websites into something that users can interact with.
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Blink
Engine from Google. Originally forked from WebKit. Most notably used in Chromium.
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EdgeHTML
Engine used in Legacy Microsoft Edge. Fork of Trident/MSHTML.
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Gecko
Engine from Mozilla. Most notably used in Firefox.
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KHTML
Used as the engine for Konqueror, part of the KDE project. KHTML was forked to create WebKit. Development ceased in 2016 and officially ended in 2023.
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LibWeb
Used in the Ladybird browser.
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Presto
Engine previously used in Opera.
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Servo
Web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
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Trident
Rendering engine used in Internet Explorer. Also referred to as MSHTML.
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WebKit
Fast, open source web browser engine developed by Apple.