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by kmac_ 1220 days ago
It goes deeper, Google forked Apple's WebKit, which was forked from KDE's KHTML forked from khtmlw.
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This is so weird to me. I was an early KDE user and remembering thinking KDE was great but the integrated web browser was absolute garbage. At that time it could only render a tiny fraction of pages at a usable level, I certainly never expected it to become what it has.
Linux spreading everywhere .... like cancer. Balmer was right!