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[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you, I used to know the rendering engines fairly well a few years ago, but I'm out of the loop now.

What about WebView? It's the rendering engine used in Android, closely related to Blink I assume.

[–] mreiner@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I honestly wasn’t super familiar with WebView until you asked!

It looks like WebView is a stripped-down browser, more than anything else. It can leverage different rendering engines depending on the platform, and on Android it looks like it leverages Blink just like Chrome.