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>one of the most important pieces of code in the world Well, that's certainly over the top. Safari is a commodity.

• Nelson69 14y ago
  Safari, Chrome, all the non-Windows phones (iOS, android, bada, blackberry, and webOS) and some lesser uses. I think some of the embedded Netflix implementations use it. It's pretty important.
  • parfe 14y ago
    Apple paid someone to hack on KHTML (In a most unfriendly manner) and Safari somehow becomes some of the most important code on the planet? Apple fans are a bit delusional. If Safari magically disappeared today Mozilla would notice a bump in downloads and everyone would go with their day.
    • micampe 14y ago
      Not Safari, WebKit.
    • mikeash 14y ago
      A few hundred million iOS and Android devices would no longer be able to access the web.
      • parfe 14y ago
        For about 8 seconds before Android users downloaded Firefox. iOS on the other hand is a prison so I suppose those users would just be screwed.
        • mikeash 14y ago
          What exactly is your argument, that it's not important because people could use something else if they had to? Does anything qualify as "important" with that definition?
          • parfe 14y ago
            Useful, sure. the original poster dubbed it "one of the most important pieces of software in the world."
            • mikeash 14y ago
              That doesn't actually address either of my questions.
              • bennytjia 14y ago
                so please tell me how safari is important?
                • deleted 14y ago
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                • micampe 14y ago
                  Not Safari. WebKit.
              • ricardobeat 14y ago
                @bennytjia read this thread slowly. WebKit, the rendering engine originally used in Safari (not Safari the application), nowadays powers Chrome, iOS, Android, BB and a hundred other browsers/platforms. In simple words: the absolute majority of mobile browsers use webkit, plus >50% of desktops/laptops.
            • GHFigs 14y ago
              There seems to be some confusion about what "it" refers to. You keep referring to Safari. The original poster referred to KHTML, which for most intents and purposes "turned into" WebKit. That's how I and apparently most others understood him to mean.