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by lights0123 1978 days ago
Nice for Google to block the project that wrote the origins of their browser engine.
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magicalist 1978 days ago
> Nice for Google to block the project that wrote the origins of their browser engine.

In this case it's blocking the embedded Blink, which is their browser engine, so at least they're consistent?

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djxfade 1978 days ago
Yeah, Blink, which is a fork from Safaris WebKit, which is a fork of Konquerors KHTML. Google Chrome wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for Konqueror.
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magicalist 1978 days ago
yes, that's what the "consistent" was referring to...
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eivarv 1978 days ago
The Qt project didn't write the origins of Google's browser engine.

Blink forked from Webkit, which started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. Many KDE-projects are built upon Qt, but Qt is an independent project.

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Drdrdrq 1978 days ago
I think they are talking about Konqueror, not QT. Konqueror is what KHTML was developed for, iirc.
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eivarv 1978 days ago
Ah, right. Thanks!
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pessimizer 1978 days ago
KDE-projects like Konqueror and Falkon, the subjects under specific discussion?
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