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"recapture the traction"? It is used by literally billions of devices of varying form factors every day. It has probably 100x the number of users as Gecko/Mozil

• filmgirlcw 4y ago
  Who said anything about Apple? I would never suggest Apple use another fork or the fork they incubated/created/developed. I was replying to a comment asking if WebKit, which != Safari could be a replacement for the Chrome-driven world we are in and when used by people who aren’t Apple. And yes, it is absolutely bigger than Gecko. No question. But are you going to tell me with a straight face that WebKit has the same amount of traction with third-parties as Blink? Because sorry, that’s not the case. That was the case for about 5 years, when post iPhone, everyone and their brother decided to use WebKit to power their mobile browser for whatever mobile OS they were building for (Android, BlackBerry, Symbian/Maemo/Meego, webOS, Tizen) or for whatever embedded systems they were designing for in-car systems or whatever, but after the Google fork became demonstrably different, the surviving players in that arena switched to Blink because Google was faster at iterating and easier to work with for upstream commits (easier does not mean easy).