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> And Firefox runs on Gecko. Which is old. Like really old. I think it's the oldest rendering engine still in wide use. Gecko may be oldest, but not with wide
by Yaggo 10y ago
> And Firefox runs on Gecko. Which is old. Like really old. I think it's the oldest rendering engine still in wide use.
Gecko may be oldest, but not with wide margin: KHTML (the origin of webkit and blink) was started in 1998, only a year after Gecko. Of course, probably not much (if any?) of the original KHTML source is still present in webkit, and because of the nature of open source development, there is blurry line between projects.
I actually ran KDE 1.0 as my main DE and used KHTML as my primary browser (falling back to Netscape when particular site was incompatible). I did immediately appreciate the coherence & elegance of KDE. It lasted for several years before OS X came and finally won me. Oh, those were times.
- dublinclontarf 10y agoYou are still on KDE 1?
- blauditore 10y agoMaybe because upgrading would require a reboot. :)
- dmytrish 10y agoNo, "run" is Past Simple here. It took me a few moments to get that though.
- monk_e_boy 10y agoIs that an Americanism? Ran is most common in the UK.
- NamTaf 10y agoI think they omitted 'had' from run. The past tense of run is 'had run', 'was running' or 'ran' depending on how you want to use it after all.
- Yaggo 10y agoThanks for correcting, I meant the past tense, not a native English speaker, fixed run -> ran.
- ooqr 10y agoNot a chance. This is something we can agree on. :)
- nkristoffersen 10y agoRan is correct. I suspect english is not their first language.
- loeg 10y agoYaggo had 'run' originally and has since edited the comment to read 'ran'.
- blauditore 10y agoOne could argue that Trident (or EdgeHTML as partial fork) is still in wide use, and this started with IE4 in 1997.
- frik 10y agoYou mean IE3. But the code dates back to Mosaic, IE1 is based on a fork of Mosaic. And you can read about it in the credits in the Info dialog of IE up to IE6 (and even all later IE and Edge contain anomalies/small glitches from Mosaic that are still present up to this day, nevertheless the code got refactored a lot and Mosaic hasn't been mentioned in IE7+.
- awj 10y ago> and even all later IE and Edge contain anomalies/small glitches from Mosaic that are still present up to this day Have any resources documenting this? I'd be curious to find the building blocks of an old empire in some modern skyscrapers.
- frik 10y agoStart there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#History There are various sites that had article about early IE history. And I suggest you to install Mosaic browser on Win7 32bit and try it out yourself - you will see how familiar almost everything is, if you know IE from everyday usage. Not just familiar, but also little things, traits and glitches are still in todays IE and Edge.
- zmodem 10y ago> KHTML (the origin of webkit and blink) was started in 1998, only a year after Gecko. Of course, probably not much (if any?) of the original KHTML source is still present in webkit At least this part is still there: http://www.hanshq.net/roman-numerals.html#khtml http://www.hanshq.net/roman-numerals.html#khtml
- jankotek 10y agoOriginal Opera engine started somewhere in 1993, last update to Opera Classics was year ago.
- loeg 10y agoI remember using Konqueror+KHTML much more recently than KDE 1.0 too :-). At one time it worked quite well.
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