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> is also based on Apple code for the core engine. Apple Safari uses WebKit - a free open source web browser engine. It's not Apple's code, it existed way bef

• batista 15y ago
  >Apple Safari uses WebKit - a free open source web browser engine. It's not Apple's code, it existed way before Apple got into browser business. I used Konqueror long before Apple made Safari, so I am aware of the history. It's hardly the whole story though. Safari uses Webkit, but Apple made Webkit. Webkit did not exist before Apple got into the browsing business. What did exist was khtml made by the KDE project. That engine was a nice stable base that Apple used to build Webkit upon but it was lightyears behind the Webkit we know. Apple put TONS of work into Webkit and made it into one of the rendering engines that it is today, long before even Google got involved. Most of Webkit buy the time was Apple's code, including tons of bugfixes, huge performance improvements, all the HTML5 support (heck Canvas is Apple's invention, before it become a standard), css tranformations and animation, and the all-important Javascript engine, which was the first Javascript engine to kick of the speedy javascript JIT race (Firefox followed suit and then come V8).