[citruspi]

> Even the largest companies in the world decided it wasn’t worth it. MSFT has a 1.4T market cap,

To be fair, Apple has (or had on the 10th of June) a market cap of 1.5T and they maintain Safari and Webkit (which GOOG forked to create Blink).

[soperj]

and Webkit was forked from KHTML. blah blah blah.

[citruspi]

Sure, but I wasn't suggesting that Webkit is an original work of art - the discussion wasn't about the history of rendering engines and browsers - it was about which companies _today_ are willing to maintain their own rendering engines and browsers instead of just skinning Chromium.

- Apple has Safari which uses Webkit (which was forked from KHTML as you noted)

- Mozilla has Firefox which uses Gecko (originally from Netscape)

- Google has Chrome which uses Blink (forked from Webkit)

- Microsoft has Edge which uses Blink

- Opera has Opera which uses Blink

... The only two major players currently maintaining a non-Chromium and Blink based browser are Firefox (mentioned by the OP) and Apple (mentioned by myself).

I was simply trying to provide some additional context about the history of Chrome, perhaps I should've also included the context about the history of Safari.

But anyways... blah blah blah

[c-smile]

> to maintain their own rendering engines and browsers instead of just skinning Chromium.

If just rendering engine (but not a browser) then Sciter will qualify I think too. And it is not derived from any others.