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> Webkit, which Apple had turned into an open-source project, was also powering the browsers on the Android and Palm operating systems. Wasn't it already open

> Webkit, which Apple had turned into an open-source project, was also powering the browsers on the Android and Palm operating systems. Wasn't it already open source with KHTML?

omouse 17y ago
Yeah wow, journalists seem to be complete retards when it comes to technical subjects...
enomar 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit "WebKit began in 2002 when Apple Inc. created a fork of the KDE project’s HTML layout engine KHTML and KDE's JavaScript engine (KJS)... ...On June 7, 2005, Safari developer Dave Hyatt announced on his weblog that Apple was open sourcing WebKit (previously, only WebCore and JavaScriptCore were open source) and opening up access to WebKit’s CVS tree and Bugzilla tool.[11] This was announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2005 by Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Bertrand Serlet." This talk on the history of KHTML is also pretty interesting: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/12/11/knoll-staikos-video http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/12/11/knoll-staikos-video
- nailer 17y ago
  If it began by forking something else, then it began as that something. Apple created the name, the QT abstraction layer, a bunch of patches, and some other work, which was great. To say they 'created' a fork of an existing project is somewhat dubious.
  - eli 17y ago
    You're probably right, but it's literally true that Apple created WebKit -- even if WebKit is mostly code they didn't write. Very few open source projects are created in a vacuum.