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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives View Post
I'm behind the times. When did Kobo switch from WebKit to Readium? Are there any pros/cons to the new engine?
When Kobo entered the Japanese market, they started with ACCESS' NetFront™ BookReader v1.0 EPUB Edition which was later modified to be WebKit based. In the meantime, ACCESS donated their PUBLUS™ Reader engine to the Readium project and their NetFront™ BookReader technology was integrated into the Readium EPUB 3 reference platform. Readium is based on WebKit (and by extension, Chromium/Blink).

The newest version is an evolution of the previous versions. I'm not sure which Readium SDK it is based on but most likely the Readium 2 Desktop SDK for Linux (basically, the same code base used for Thorium for Linux).
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