[donmelton]

I'll write another post about why we called it "Alexander." You're not far from the mark about it being related to "Alexander the Great." But not for the reason you think.

[gioele]

Given that Safari/WebKit is based on KHTML, I'd say that Alexander was named after KDE's Konqueror.

[donmelton]

Yes, that is the relationship. All of the components were named after (K)conquerors.