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by bsimpson
2045 days ago
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They aren't mutually exclusive. WebKit was originally based on KHTML, but Apple still founded WebKit and controls its source code. Even if WebKit was just Apple's name for their internal fork of KHTML, I don't see any reason they'd retire it. Blink was originally spun-out of WebKit too. Similarly, Google controls Blink, and the two have diverged significantly in the intervening years. I suspect patches for any of them won't apply cleanly to the other two. Regardless of their origins; KHTML, WebKit, and Blink are now independent pieces of software. It's still unclear to me why anyone should expect Apple to retire WebKit for iOS. |
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> Blink was originally spun-out of WebKit too
Founded, spun out of, forked... What's in the name?
I think one cannot "found" something that's largely based on a fork of something else.