WebKit VS chromium

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WebKit chromium
1 234
84 19,353
- 1.5%
2.7 10.0
13 days ago 1 day ago
C++ C++
- BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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WebKit

Posts with mentions or reviews of WebKit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.

chromium

Posts with mentions or reviews of chromium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-20.
  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2024
    Chrome 77 removed the prominent green EV badge. "A series of academic research in the 2000s studied the EV UI in lab and survey settings, and found that the EV UI was not protecting against phishing attacks as intended. The Chrome Security UX team recently published a study that updated these findings with a large-scale field experiment, as well as a series of survey experiments." [1]

    Extended Validation can still play a role in a corporate's IT control framework; the extended validation is essentially a check-of-paperwork that then doesn't need to be performed by your own auditor. Some EV certificates also come with some (probably completely useless) liability insurance.

    [1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/%2B/HEAD/docs...

  • DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Off Chrome to Break Search Monopoly
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2024
    https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/LICENSE

      // Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  • Claude for Desktop
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2024
    Distributing for linux sucks. There are dozen different ways to install applications and not a single format could be installed by say top 5 distro. I was hopeful for Snap, but it is awful in my experience. Unless the package is managed by the distribution itself, installing it sucks. e.g. Here is link for chromium binaries for linux[1].

    [1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

  • Web Browser Engineering
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2024
    Yes [4].

    > [1] The library is used as of 2023 in Google Chrome, ChromeOS, ChromiumOS, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Android, Firefox OS, Flutter,[5] Avalonia (from Alpha 4), LibreOffice (from version 7.0) and RAD Studio[6](since version 12.0).

    > [2] Changes to the Skia repository will be rolled into Chromium by the AutoRoll bot several times per day.

    > [3] It serves as the graphics engine for Google Chrome and ChromeOS, Android, Flutter, and many other products.

    [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia_Graphics_Engine

    [2]: https://skia.org/docs/dev/chrome/

    [3]: https://skia.org/

    [4]: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tree/main/skia

  • Tō Reo – A Māori Spellchecker
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2024
    There are conventions around that. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i... Generally, if all the characters are from one script, then it is decoded. There are lots of exceptions detailed there, but it's harder to make a homoglyph attack work using only characters from one script to impersonate another.
  • Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2024
    > I've found no other mention of this on the internet

    Here's one! (different character, but same issue it seems?)

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1cbarz5/ele...

    > and I'd love to to hunt this down and fix it but have no clue where to start. I guess the first step would be to consistently reproduce the bug...

    I am not familiar with Chromium at all, and I also don't run Linux on the desktop as I'm guessing from your video you do (?) so take this with a grain of salt...

    I would start looking at the focus and key event handlers. e.g. maybe log the contents of pressed_keys and/or step thru the code from the beginning of the focus handler. It looks like this might be the place:

    https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/components/ex...

  • Linux Desktop Market Share Climbs to 4.45%
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2024
  • Common I/O Tasks in Modern Java
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2024
    Var is somewhat controversial and shouldn’t be used indiscriminately anyway. Chromium’s Java styleguide is a good example: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/styleg...
  • Google Chrome has a special hidden API accesible only from *.google.com
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2024
    Looks like they added this in October 2013: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/422c736b82e7ee76...

        Bundle Hangouts Services extension with Chrome
  • Demystifying the Shadow DOM
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
    One of the unexpected use of shadow DOMs for me was a document generated for image resource URLs [1], because the HTML standard apparently specifies the exact DOM structure of the generated document except for the `` element [2].

    [1] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/f02ca73/third_part...

    [2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/document-lifecycle.ht...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WebKit and chromium you can also consider the following projects:

hayagriva - Rusty bibliography management.

ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

pixglyph - OpenType glyph rendering.

WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.

htmlwg - HTML Working Group

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.

font-rs

bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

ab-glyph - Rust API for loading, scaling, positioning and rasterizing OpenType font glyphs

brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

fontdue - The fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.

gecko-dev - Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html

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