[victorbstan]

Wasn’t chromium based in WebKit? Same as Safari. Basically Apple forket webkit to make safari and Google forked WebKit to make chromium. I really don’t see what the hubbub is about trying so hard to have gecko, webkit, etc. rendering engines out there. If the end goal is standards compliance, the outcome should be the same. The fact that Google did such a good job on early chrome compared to everyone else is really why it’s so popular. Ultimately it’s open source. I think chromium could become more popular than it is, if they upped their marketing and made access to up to date binaries as frictionless as possible for as many platforms as possible.

[robertoandred]

Apple forked KHTML to make WebKit, which it used to make Safari. Google originally used WebKit to make Chrome, but then forked WebKit to make Blink, which it uses for Chrome now.

[dikei]

> If the end goal is standards compliance, the outcome should be the same.

The problem is Google is using Chromium dominant market share to push some questionable "features" into standards.

> The fact that Google did such a good job on early chrome compared to everyone else is really why it’s so popular.

Chrome is good, but Google being the largest advertising machine in the world also helps.