Yes, Blink is a fork of WebCore. Chrome never used any of the other parts of WebKit, ie V8 instead of JavaScriptCore since the very beginning of Chrome.
Google is certainly dominant in the browser space, just not through WebKit since 2013. Edge since 2019 on the other hand is based on Chromium...
Will be interesting to see what/when/who the next major change in the space is. For example, Edge could fork Chromium for more control, like Chrome forked WebCore. That would be pedestrian. Some new engine could still be disruptive. Conventional wisdom is a new browser getting significant adoption is impossible given how much there is to implement, but there's some chance it's actually getting easier due to more debgugging of standards with each attempt, as pointed out by the Ladybird developer semi-recently. Or maybe something else entirely...
Good feedback. Thanks.
What do you think of PWA's and path to them wrt to the knowledge you dropped above?
Don't really know. Rooting for, but been a good idea for a long time already. Fugu chipping away at things PWAs can do, not sure how important that is. Will WebAssembly sweep, and sweep along PWAs is a question.
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