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dontlaugh
72 days ago
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Gecko was always hard to embed, which is why WebKit was developed by Apple and then widespread in open source projects.
mionhe
72 days ago
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More accurately, why WebKit was forked from khtml by Apple.
dontlaugh
72 days ago
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Sure. KHTML wasn’t embeddable outside KDE either until Apple made that happen.
ASalazarMX
72 days ago
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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.
dontlaugh
72 days ago
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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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