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Gecko was always hard to embed, which is why WebKit was developed by Apple and then widespread in open source projects.
by dontlaugh 1y ago
Gecko was always hard to embed, which is why WebKit was developed by Apple and then widespread in open source projects.
- mionhe 1y agoMore accurately, why WebKit was forked from khtml by Apple.
- dontlaugh 1y agoSure. KHTML wasn’t embeddable outside KDE either until Apple made that happen.
- ASalazarMX 1y agoThat was always KHTML's goal, but Apple saw value in it for their business plan, just like it saw value in FreeBSD to reuse as their OS's base.
- dontlaugh 1y agoSure. I wasn’t trying to say that Apple made WebKit from scratch, merely that they developed it into something easily embeddable. That very much was novel at the time.