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WebKit is open source and is developed by Apple and other companies such as KDE, Google, Nokia, Samsung and others.
by program 15y ago
WebKit is open source and is developed by Apple and other companies such as KDE, Google, Nokia, Samsung and others.
- cookiecaper 15y agoKDE is not a company and WebKit originated as a fork from KHTML, KDE's HTML rendering engine used in Konqueror. Too much credit is often ascribed to Apple for appropriating the engine on to a popular piece of software (OS X).
- bad_user 15y agoThey did applied polish to it though and also built a new Javascript engine. I don't know who contributed what, but today's WebKit is a lot better than what KHTML was before being forked. I was once a KDE user and the first thing I did after a fresh install was to replace Konqueror. But yes, truth be told, the KDE developers that worked on KHTML deserve a lot of credit.