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Chrome uses Blink. WebKit is used in KDE and Safari.


WebKit is also used by GNOME Web/Epiphany and more embedded applications than can possibly be counted. It fits a lot of places that Blink doesn’t because it’s built to be highly embeddable (more than Blink is anyway) and has bindings for every language imaginable.


I noticed that none of the cross-platform frameworks listed here https://xpda.net/ use WebKit.

I am guessing many commercial users of WebKit can be guessed by looking at the list of Committers (of which Igalia has quite a few): https://webkit.org/team/


KDE hasn't used WebKit for many years. KDE uses QtWebEngine, which is based on the Chromium Embedded Framework.




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