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what ever became of khtml? i remember back in the day it had the nicest codebase of all of the browser layout engines.

• madeofpalk 2y ago
  Basically became webkit. Which google forked for Blink/Chrome
  • yonatan8070 2y ago
    Damn I was entirely unaware that both Chrome and Safari can trace their roots back to KDE of all projects. I always just assumed big corpos like Google and Apple would just roll their own from scratch.
    • pests 2y ago
      It was easier to just take a competitors engine, let me chase the new web standards, and slap a new UI on it. Edge and Opera both use Blink, so also trace back to KDE.
      • IshKebab 2y ago
        Who would have guessed that Microsoft's web browser would end up being based on KDE's web engine?
        • lmm 2y ago
          Who would have guessed that all major proprietary browsers would be using KDE's web engine, while most of the open source community used Netscape's one?
        • zarzavat 2y ago
          Only in the sense of a browser engine Ship of Theseus. By the time Microsoft adopted Blink that KHTML code was long gone.
• xnorswap 2y ago
  Webkit was forked from khtml, but the original died along with Konqueror, which couldn't keep up with javascript API changes & performance.
  • a-dub 2y ago
    lots of relevant interesting reading on the webkit wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit seems it was a quite complicated matter that included clashes between open source and commercial concerns. https://web.archive.org/web/20090210230809/http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1049 https://web.archive.org/web/20090210230809/http://www.kdedev...
• loeg 2y ago
  It eventually forked into Webkit / Chrome.