Notable Blink-Based Browsers Current BrowsersĬhrome is available as a “final version”, and as betas and developer previews: its betasĪre akin to betas or late alphas of other software and its developer previews are akin to alphas or early alphas.Ĭhrome is available for Android, Linux, MacOS, and Windows.Ĭhrome uses the Blink browser engine, also used by other browsers: see sidebar.Ĭhrome has a minimalist user interface, and offers few user options.
Safari renders pages differently for different DOCTYPEsīrave offers a browser for desktops and cellphones, using Chrome’s Blink browser engine. Known how up-to-date and how authoritative this is a simplied list of WebKit and Safari versions isĪlso available, on this site. The major WebKit versions are reported by Wikipedia, but it’s not It’s therefore very difficult now to determine the Safari version vector by examining the userAgent string Sometimes (but not always) updates the WebKit build number when it fixes bugs.Īpple used to have a page listing how the various version vectors related to each other, but a brainless idiot at Apple removed the page: Apple usually (but not always) updates the Safari build number when it fixes bugs, and The third set are the WebKit (browser engine) build numbers: these are also in the userAgent strings, following the substringĪpple updates the Safari version vector only with major updates.A second set of numbers are Safari build numbers, e.g.Strings following the substring “Version/”. These are the primary numbers Apple uses in its publicĭocuments, but the version vectors appear in Safari userAgent strings only in newer versions of Safari: when present they are in the userAgent One set are the Safari version vectors listed above, i.e.Version vectorsĪpple uses 3 sets of version vectors for Safari: Originally for MacOS, Safari now runs on other platforms, including the iPhone.Īpple reportedly chose to base Safari on KHTML instead of Gecko becauseĪ KHTML was faster, b KHTML’s source code was smaller and cleaner,Īnd c Apple did not need Gecko’s multi-platform support. Safari uses Apple’s WebKit, which is based in part on Konqueror’s KHTML browser engine.
NB: you may also wish to refer to Wikipedia’s list of web browsers. It rarely covers browsers that are little used or that use standard engines from
NB: because this site focuses on browsers needed to test websites,
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