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I actually agree with you. That probably prompts the question: "how on Earth could you possibly hold both of these stances simultaneously without being a big, f

I actually agree with you. That probably prompts the question: "how on Earth could you possibly hold both of these stances simultaneously without being a big, fat phony?". Yeah... okay, admittedly it probably doesn't prompt that question because you have better things to be doing, but I have nothing better to do, so I'll explain myself anyway! The comparison to 7/Vista/XP was not accidental. As you may know, there is an 8 year time gap between the release of 7 and XP. Moreover, Vista was a huge transitional change. Under the hood, 7 and XP are different animals, even if they do share common ancestry and deliver the same baseline functions. Taking these things into consideration, it's not terribly pedantic to insist that Windows 7 is, in fact, built on top of Vista and not XP. It's still a hair pedantic, but only in the context of this fact being used to correct someone with a less strictly correct (although, I insist, still true) interpretation. That's the feeling I was trying (and failing) to convey with my comparison, which happens to actually be in agreement with your counterpoints.

cxr 6y ago
> there is an 8 year time gap between the release of 7 and XP Which is why the metaphor is off. Safari+WebKit and Chrome+Blink are being developed in parallel and competing with one another. They're not two releases in the same product line where one is the dead forebear and the other a successor. > it's not terribly pedantic to insist that Windows 7 is, in fact, built on top of Vista and not XP What? That wasn't the topic. None of this is relevant. The topic is which engine Chrome is using. Explaining that Chrome doesn't use WebKit isn't pedantic. However, when someone does explain it, for someone else to appear and point out that the engine it uses is forked from WebKit—a nugget of information that changes nothing about the discussion—is pedantic. I think you're responding at this point for the pleasure of feeling like you're having a conversation, or you're still misinformed about which browsers use which engines. WebKit is not Blink, and Chromium is using the latter, not the former. That's the whole point of this entire digression.

cxr 6y ago

> there is an 8 year time gap between the release of 7 and XP Which is why the metaphor is off. Safari+WebKit and Chrome+Blink are being developed in parallel and competing with one another. They're not two releases in the same product line where one is the dead forebear and the other a successor. > it's not terribly pedantic to insist that Windows 7 is, in fact, built on top of Vista and not XP What? That wasn't the topic. None of this is relevant. The topic is which engine Chrome is using. Explaining that Chrome doesn't use WebKit isn't pedantic. However, when someone does explain it, for someone else to appear and point out that the engine it uses is forked from WebKit—a nugget of information that changes nothing about the discussion—is pedantic. I think you're responding at this point for the pleasure of feeling like you're having a conversation, or you're still misinformed about which browsers use which engines. WebKit is not Blink, and Chromium is using the latter, not the former. That's the whole point of this entire digression.