The last time a major browser originated, RAM was measured in MB, CPU freq in MHz, and the iPod was the thing that the one trend hunter your friend knew was about to buy.
The major browser platform today, smartphones, did not exist. PDAs did not even have wireless internet yet.
The basis for the functionality of the browser is due for a reimagining.
Chrome forked from Webkit, which forked from KHTML, which apparently dates from 4th November 1998, so Chrome's base is 25 years and 7 months old tomorrow.
KHTML+KJS released in 1998, via WebKit from 2001, in 2008 it gained the Chrome name, but the code has more than 20 years of legacy.
There’s very little WebKit / KHTML code left in Chrome.
There's very little NT 3.1 code left in Windows, but it's still clear how old that project is.
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> KHTML+KJS released in 1998, via WebKit from 2001, in 2008 it gained the Chrome name, but the code has more than 20 years of legacy.
Why do you want the oldest code to be less than 20 years old? Why is that "nice"?
Because 20 years is like half the history of modern computing. A lot has changed in a small amount of time
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The last time a major browser originated, RAM was measured in MB, CPU freq in MHz, and the iPod was the thing that the one trend hunter your friend knew was about to buy.
The major browser platform today, smartphones, did not exist. PDAs did not even have wireless internet yet.
The basis for the functionality of the browser is due for a reimagining.
Chrome forked from Webkit, which forked from KHTML, which apparently dates from 4th November 1998, so Chrome's base is 25 years and 7 months old tomorrow.
KHTML was born in 1998 and became the foundation of Chrome and Safari. All major browsers are over a decade old, or just skins of decade+ old engines.