THINGS HAVE BEEN relatively quiet in the world of web browsers for a while, if you overlook Microsoft’s constant pressure on Windows users to switch to Edge. The MS browser has greatly improved since the switch to Google’s rendering engine, Blink, itself a fork of Apple’s older Webkit engine used in Safari. Microsoft also has Trident (Internet Explorer) and EdgeHTML (older versions of Edge), while Firefox runs on Gecko. There are others, too.
These engines affect the way websites, which exist as lines of code and image files on a server somewhere, are displayed on your computer. The differences between them mean they don’t always render web content identically, especially in these days of embedded content, multiple coding languages, and plugins that mean a browser may
