Kagi is starting to build their Orion browser which is WebKit-based for Linux as of this year. I never do anything close enough to the browser engine to know, but apparently devs like WebKit a lot?

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toyg 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Devs like WebKit because it's easy to integrate in non-browsers.

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skrtskrt 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Like for desktop apps? I guess this differs fundamentally from Chromium in that... you do not run the "entire" browser like in Electron?

	▲	fkfyshroglk 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		I thought that electron == chrome

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fkfyshroglk 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

...is there a better reason to like webkit? Chromium certainly doesn't make effort to seem appealing to developers outside of its association with WebKit.

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alabastervlog 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I used a really low-end system for a while some time back, running Linux, and WebKit-based browsers were the only ones with a mainstream (so: actually renders correctly for practically all sites) engine that was usable with even one tab open (I could do 2-3 as long as none of the pages were “webapps”)

This indicates some kind of fundamentally better design, to me. Probably related to why Safari’s by far the most respectful to battery life, of the big three browsers.

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thesuitonym 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Since when? I don't see any mention on the blog, and the FAQ still says they're not targeting anything other than MacOS. https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#other_os_support

	▲	skrtskrt 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		It was officially announced late February/early March I believe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302073