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