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How corporate to switch official browsers away from IE… to a browser that is no longer the leading engine anymore. I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavo

by alanh 16y ago

How corporate to switch official browsers away from IE… to a browser that is no longer the leading engine anymore. I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavor, like Chrome? Edit: Mozilla Corp. is a commercial entity, just like Google and Apple are. Gecko and WebKit are both open source, and Chromium builds show just how easy it would be to build an IBM-branded Chrome, if you will. I don’t see IP as a serious factor here.

wmf 16y ago
Chrome probably didn't even exist yet when IBM started migrating to Firefox.
- alanh 16y ago
  Can anyone enlighten me as to what sort of browser-specific investments have been made? Isn’t the idea of a standards-based web that it hardly matters which browser is chosen, as long as it supports the standards in question?
  - wmf 16y ago
    Probably testing.
w1ntermute 16y ago
I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavor, like Chrome? One of their requirements was that the browser not be "beholden to one commercial entity".
ZeroGravitas 16y ago
Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation (whose stated mission is to work towards an open web) and was mainly set for tax reasons. This makes it very unlike Google or Apple.