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Some #history, like #Android with #GNU+#Linux...
«#Microsoft's new, #Chromium-based #Edge, was remade with the Blink #engine. #Google originally used #WebKit for its #Chrome browser but eventually forked it to create the #Blink engine. #Apple created the WebKit engine for its #Safari #browser by #forking the #KHTML engine of the #KDE project.»
«#Mozilla develops the #Gecko engine for its #Firefox browser and the #Thunderbird #email #client.»
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_engine
#FLOSS #MPL #GPL #FreeSoftware

@canleaf @[email protected] @LilahTovMoon webkit hasn't been the Chrome engine since who knows how long ago. Probably close to 20 years now'

Went like this: #KDE' #Konqueror web and file browser had a quite clean but basic HTML engine #KHTML. Apple wanted an engine for their new #Safari browser and picked KHTML. Mozilla's gecko (not positive was gecko then) was a mess so wasn't used. KHTML was #GPL hurray! Became AppleWebkit. Google picked it for new Chrome. Soon forked wk to #Blink. Power of GPL.

If you really think about it, 98% of browsers nowadays are actually reskinned Konquerer with enhancements, the other 2% is Firefox.

#konqueror #web #tech #kde #khtml #webkit #blink #funfacts