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by shadowfox
4502 days ago
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> but I'm sure that's the way Netscape thought of it as well Don't really think so. At least as far Netscape 6 went, they came up with an entirely different framework and moved over to Java (as far as I remember). I have rarely seen that sort of thing characterized as a refactor (even on their mailing lists). |
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Some of us have been using Gecko as their renderer for almost sixteen years now. Seems KHTML(w), the base of both Webkit and Blink[5], is the same age. Seems we've gotten a good run out of the existing codebases. In fact, this means that Gecko (and khtml) have been in use twice as long as NCSA Mosaic, which the first Netscape was based on[6]. Imagine how Spolsky must feel about the Servo rewrite.
1. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
2. https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite#Marke...
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_6
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_7
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML#KHTML_and_Apple
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29