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> Even the largest companies in the world decided it wasn’t worth it. MSFT has a 1.4T market cap, To be fair, Apple has (or had on the 10th of June) a market c
by citruspi 6y ago
> Even the largest companies in the world decided it wasn’t worth it. MSFT has a 1.4T market cap,
To be fair, Apple has (or had on the 10th of June) a market cap of 1.5T and they maintain Safari and Webkit (which GOOG forked to create Blink).
- soperj 6y agoand Webkit was forked from KHTML. blah blah blah.
- citruspi 6y agoSure, but I wasn't suggesting that Webkit is an original work of art - the discussion wasn't about the history of rendering engines and browsers - it was about which companies _today_ are willing to maintain their own rendering engines and browsers instead of just skinning Chromium. - Apple has Safari which uses Webkit (which was forked from KHTML as you noted) - Mozilla has Firefox which uses Gecko (originally from Netscape) - Google has Chrome which uses Blink (forked from Webkit) - Microsoft has Edge which uses Blink - Opera has Opera which uses Blink ... The only two major players currently maintaining a non-Chromium and Blink based browser are Firefox (mentioned by the OP) and Apple (mentioned by myself). I was simply trying to provide some additional context about the history of Chrome, perhaps I should've also included the context about the history of Safari. But anyways... blah blah blah
- c-smile 6y ago> to maintain their own rendering engines and browsers instead of just skinning Chromium. If just rendering engine (but not a browser) then Sciter will qualify I think too. And it is not derived from any others.