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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 App

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.