[kerpele]

If someone told the young Linux freak me back in the early 2000s that one day Internet Explorer’s rendering engine is based on the KDE rendering engine I would’ve probably died laughing and frozen in horror at the same time.

Yeah, I realize there’s probably nothing left if the old KHTML but it still does give me a chuckle.

[loudmax]

But one wouldn't have been surprised to find out that the Microsoft's KHTML based browser doesn't run on any open source operating system.

[SyneRyder]

Not yet, but a Linux version of Edge is coming later:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-edge-confirmed-comi...

[arusahni]

IIRC it exists for Android.

[vermilingua]

Android is open source in the same way that Chrome is. That is to say, not.

[arusahni]

I'd contend that it is closer to Chromium as the Googley bits are in Play Services and OEM builds.

[jzl]

Hah. So true. Not to mention that Windows would one day have available an entirely integrated linux kernel direct from Microsoft[1].

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/

[mike_d]

An open source project released by Apple, that Google added a bunch of features to - including DRM, and Microsoft adopted to help unify the web for internal enterprise apps.

What a world we live in.

[xp84]

The story is told well by this user agent string:

   Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6)
     AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
     Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36 Edg/79.0.309.65

"Edg"* , like Chrome, like Safari/AppleWebKit, like KHTML, like Gecko, like Mozilla 5.0.

My lord, this ridiculous header is f'ed (and I don't mean this string, just this entire ridiculous slow-motion trainwreck that requires every browser to pretend to be every browser that ever came before).

\* presuming that spelling means 'please don't lock me out like Edge' -- modern Chromium Opera identifies as OPR, similarly

[elproxy]

There's still plenty of references and small but essential stuff. One notorious example that comes to mind is the KURL name that stuck: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink.git/+/maste...

[kerpele]

That's awesome!

Although, all copyrights are Apple's on that particular file. I wonder if everything's been done by the book.