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This is webkit, which is open source. Apple took an existing HTML/CSS/DOM engine, rewrote it, renamed it, and opensourced its version, too. It's compiled using
by Arnt 7y ago
This is webkit, which is open source. Apple took an existing HTML/CSS/DOM engine, rewrote it, renamed it, and opensourced its version, too.
It's compiled using LLVM, which also contains thousands of lines of open source code by Apple.
Of course you might argue that these examples don't prove your sweeping statement false, but please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman before arguing.
- testtesttest 7y agoOpen source is not the same as open. You can't run Firefox on an iPhone.
- tekstar 7y agoSure you can https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/id989804926 https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/i...
- summerlight 7y agoSure you can't. That's not Firefox, but Firefox-branded Safari.
- anticensor 7y agoYou can run real Firefox too, if you jailbreak first.
- Abishek_Muthian 7y agoBefore someone says I have Firefox/Chrome on my iPhone; they are just skins for Safari. Same vulnerabilities which exist on Safari(Webkit) can be exploited there as well since they aren't allowed to use their browser engine.
- Arnt 7y agoIf I understand you correctly, "open source" is not a kind of openness and should be disregarded. Assuming that is so, for the sake of argument, what does count as openness?
- Jasper_ 7y agoIt was open sourced as WebKit because it derived from KHTML, which was copyleft, and it took lawyers getting involved before Apple played ball and released it as open source.