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I'll write another post about why we called it "Alexander." You're not far from the mark about it being related to "Alexander the Great." But not for the reason

I'll write another post about why we called it "Alexander." You're not far from the mark about it being related to "Alexander the Great." But not for the reason you think.

gioele 14y ago
Given that Safari/WebKit is based on KHTML, I'd say that Alexander was named after KDE's Konqueror.
- donmelton 14y ago
  Yes, that is the relationship. All of the components were named after (K)conquerors.