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by toyg 1626 days ago
Yeah, WebKit really tilted the scale. KHTML had been built to be easily embeddable already (since it was supposed to be used across the whole KDE desktop, following what MS had done with "Active Desktop" in Windows 2000/XP), and Apple gave it the polish and popularity to make it the obvious choice. Any org or ecosystem who needed a rendering engine rushed to wrap WebKit, and that included Google.