What are the basic differences differences between the browsers powered by Gecko and by those powered by Webkit?

Question

I wanted to know about the basic differences between the browsers powered by Gecko and Webkit? - Are there any differences in the way they render? - Any difference in the mechanism they use to render?

Any other differences?

Cowl

Answer 1

• Gecko and Webkit are different rendering engines.
• Yes, they use somewhat different rendering mechanisms.
• Yes, the results sometimes look different, though that usually indicates a bug in either WebKit or Gecko or both.
• Gecko-based browsers use SpiderMonkey as their JavaScript engine, while WebKit-based ones use either JavaScriptCore or V8.
• Different browsers use different networking libraries (Gecko-based ones use necko, while WebKit-based ones use a variety of different libraries).

Appendage

thanks for pointing out all those diferences, I've found this link useful too : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browser_engines – Bowman

Answer 2

There is a Wikipedia page listing the differences of layout engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML5). One main difference between these mainstream layout engines seems to be that the set of tags they support can be quite different. Though those tags might be seldom used/can be emulated by CSS or JS anyways.

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