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1. dontla+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-10-24 18:00:17
Gecko was always hard to embed, which is why WebKit was developed by Apple and then widespread in open source projects.
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2. mionhe+I1[view] [source] 2025-10-24 18:10:41
>>dontla+(OP)
More accurately, why WebKit was forked from khtml by Apple.
replies(1): >>dontla+U1
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3. dontla+U1[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-10-24 18:12:16
>>mionhe+I1
Sure. KHTML wasn’t embeddable outside KDE either until Apple made that happen.
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4. ASalaz+G4[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-10-24 18:28:03
>>dontla+U1
That 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.
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5. dontla+tL[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-10-24 23:54:43
>>ASalaz+G4
Sure. 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.
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