Layout engines
A web browser engine, (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine), is a software component 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.
Some layout engines such as Trident/MSHTML and Presto are associated primarily or exclusively with a particular browser such as Internet Explorer and Opera respectively.
Others, such as WebKit and Gecko, are shared by a number of browsers, such as Safari, Google Chrome, RockMelt, Firefox or Flock.
The different layout engines implement the DOM standards to varying degrees of compliance.
Gecko, the Mozilla project's open-source web browser engine, is used by a variety of products derived from the Mozilla code base, including the Firefox web browser, the Thunderbird e-mail client, and SeaMonkey internet suite.
Trident, the web browser engine from Internet Explorer, is used by many applications on the Microsoft Windows platform, such as Outlook Express, some versions of Microsoft Outlook, and the mini-browsers in Winamp and RealPlayer.
Opera Software's proprietary Presto engine is licensed to a number of other software vendors, and is used in Opera's own web browser.
KDE's open-source KHTML engine is used in KDE's Konqueror web browser and was the basis for WebKit, the rendering engine in Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome web browsers.
- PSD to HTML Conversions
- JPEG to HTML Conversions
- AI to HTML Conversions
- PNG to HTML Conversions
- TIFF to HTML Conversions
- BMP to HTML Conversions
- Layout engines
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
XML - Extensible Markup Language
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
XSL - Extensible Stylesheet Language
DOM - Document Object Model
