[archangel_one]

It was originally developed as part of KDE (KHTML), although Apple have obviously done a lot with it since.

[sonthonax]

Yup, it’s a fork of KHTML, much like Blink is a fork of Webkit.

One thing that WebKit does better than other browsers on OSX is hooking into the native rendering APIs. That’s something that Firefox does a shoddy job at.