People outside Google have made a thing called Chromium Embedded Framework that works as an embeddable engine, but as you can tell from the name, it still has a lot of code from the Chromium level. Electron also does something similar.
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Replying to @othermaciej @reneritchie
Ish? WebKit is like a very complete kit-car. Includes > 1/2 of what you need to render a webpage; graphics, networking, & storage are all BYO but easily pluggable. Blink is an engine designed to be run on one chassis (chromium's //content layer); you buy them as a tested package
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Replying to @reneritchie @slightlylate
Alex knows who I am. And I’m pretty sure he’s never written a WebKit app for Mac or iOS. Not sure why he thinks he can explain how WebKit works to me...
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Replying to @othermaciej @reneritchie
Wasn't trying to; the analogy for embedders is...hard to get right
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Replying to @slightlylate @reneritchie
Your original analogy mixed up the perspective of embedders and porters. Porting either WebKit or Blink/Chromium to a new platform requires adding significant pieces. Embedding WebKit is drag-and-drop simple. Embedding just Blink is nearly impossible. Embedding CEF is not bad.
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Replying to @othermaciej @reneritchie
The original question was not specific about the difference.
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Replying to @slightlylate @reneritchie
Rene can clarify, but it seemed pretty clear to me. Question was why a browser would use (i.e. embed) Chromium instead of Blink. I gave the correct answer, which is that you pretty much can't embed just Blink w/o Chromium.
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Browsers use WebKit in both ways. When we used it in Chrome for Mac, it was a port on all OSes. Also, there's no easy embedding story for WebKit outside Mac/iOS.
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