No where in that thread is he suggesting they weren't standing on the shoulders of those who came before, but he's also right a rendering engine is not a browse

No where in that thread is he suggesting they weren't standing on the shoulders of those who came before, but he's also right a rendering engine is not a browser and at the time Chrome was revolutionary in a number of ways. It was crazy fast. Even compared to other khtml browsers. It's multi-process architecture meant that for the first time a single page or tab couldn't take down your whole browser. And yes that was something I experienced frequently at the time. 200 person years to deliver a full browser that was an leap forward compared to the rest of the browsers is seriously impressive. His point stands they did it without a death march.