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by mionhe 232 days ago
More accurately, why WebKit was forked from khtml by Apple.
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dontlaugh 232 days ago
Sure. KHTML wasn’t embeddable outside KDE either until Apple made that happen.
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ASalazarMX 232 days ago
That was always KHTML's goal, but Apple saw value in it for their business plan, just like it saw value in FreeBSD to reuse as their OS's base.
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dontlaugh 232 days ago
Sure. I wasn’t trying to say that Apple made WebKit from scratch, merely that they developed it into something easily embeddable. That very much was novel at the time.
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