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KHTML is as old as Gecko, and Webkit and Gecko are both LGPL. the killer feature back in the early 2000's was the ability to render most of the pages on the In
by blibble 15y ago
KHTML is as old as Gecko, and Webkit and Gecko are both LGPL.
the killer feature back in the early 2000's was the ability to render most of the pages on the Internet as IE did, so saying that the engines were the product of standards is categorically wrong.
the lack of adoption of Gecko outside of Mozilla is more to do with the fact the source code is a mess, whereas Webkit is very clean and tidy, and as a result very easy to hack on (years ago I wanted to embed Gecko in a project, and ended up using Webkit as it was actually possible to modify...).
- pcwalton 15y agoThe remarkable thing about Firefox is not how much it compromised on implementing IE-specific features, but rather how much market share it gained in spite of the fact that it didn't compromise on implementing IE-specific features. To name a few off the top of my head: ActiveX, filter:progid:DXImageTransform, CSS "zoom" property, insertAdjacentElement(), etc.
- yuhong 15y agoGecko is now LGPL. Back in 2000 it wasn't.