Directory of Rendering Engines Resources

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A layout engine, or rendering engine, is software that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen.
It "paints" on the content area of a window, which is displayed on a monitor or a printer.
A rendering engine is typically used for web browsers, e-mail clients, or other applications that require the displaying (and editing) of web contents.

Resources in This Category

• Blink

  http://www.chromium.org/blink
  The rendering engine used by Chromium.

• Gecko

  https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko
  Maintained and primarily used by the Mozilla Corporation on Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and NVU. [Open-Source, Mozilla tri-license]

• GtkHTML

  http://directory.fsf.org/project/gtkhtml/
  Designed to be implemented into GTK applications requiring lightweight HTML functionality. [GPL]

• HtmLayout

  http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/
  Embeddable HTML/CSS renderer and layout manager component. [Commercial]

• KHTML

  http://www.konqueror.org/features/browser.php
  Developed by the KDE project and used in Konqueror. [GNU]

• Trident

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa741317.aspx
  Rendering engine used on the Windows versions of Internet Explorer. Also known as MSHTML.

• WebKit

  http://webkit.org/
  Originally derived by Apple from the KHTML software library of Konqueror. Primarily used in Apple Safari and in Google Chrome. [Open-Source, LGPLv2/BSD-style]

• Wikipedia: Comparison of web browser engines

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browser_engines
  General information, release history, operating system support.

 

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