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It's instructive to think about some history. Chrome's rendering engine, Blink, is a fork of WebKit. Before 2013, the landscape of browsers and browser-like pro
by kccqzy 3y ago
It's instructive to think about some history. Chrome's rendering engine, Blink, is a fork of WebKit. Before 2013, the landscape of browsers and browser-like projects were even bleaker than today: basically everyone depended on Apple's perpetual goodwill. Even Google, because Apple had a notoriously bad code review process for committing to WebKit itself. Then Google forked it.
You ask what if Google one day yanks the rug out, and the answer is, plenty of large companies will fork it.
- kortilla 3y ago> Before 2013, the landscape of browsers and browser-like projects were even bleaker than today What are you talking about? That was the prime of Firefox and browser modification
- kccqzy 3y agoSince GP was talking about dependence on Chromium, I was naturally talking about the dominance of WebKit at that time. WebKit had almost 100% dominance on mobile and ~60% market share on desktop. Of course by then everyone knew that mobile was the future so it was even fine to target just WebKit.