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dontlaugh
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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.
mionhe
5 days ago
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More accurately, why WebKit was forked from khtml by Apple.
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dontlaugh
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Sure. KHTML wasn’t embeddable outside KDE either until Apple made that happen.
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ASalazarMX
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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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dontlaugh
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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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