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Somehow, everybody pretends as if Webkit is some proprietary, closed source rendering engine, but after all, it is the great success of the KDE/Konqueror render
by JepZ 9y ago
Somehow, everybody pretends as if Webkit is some proprietary, closed source rendering engine, but after all, it is the great success of the KDE/Konqueror rendering engine, being adopted by some huge corporations (Apple, Google). [1]
While I appreciate that we still have the independent Firefox and its brand new Quantum engine, sometimes I feel like the Konqueror/KHTML team does not receive the appropriate tribute for laying the foundation for the dominant KHTML/Webkit/Blink engine.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Origins
- tambourine_man 9y agoWhile I largely agree, a ton of work was done by Apple before Webkit was usable. Most sites would show subtle rendering glitches and it took a while before it matured.
- lbenes 9y agoNot sure why you had issues. In my experience under KDE it was rock solid. It was my primary browser from around 2002 until ~2009. I often tried other browsers and Konqueror led the pack in terms of web conformance and performance.
- Fnoord 9y agoThe way I remember it is that KHTML and Mozilla worked perfectly fine if websites followed the real standards instead of MSIE's defacto standard. Which, back in the early '00s, was often not the case.