Comment by dontlaugh
3 months ago
Gecko was always hard to embed, which is why WebKit was developed by Apple and then widespread in open source projects.
3 months ago
Gecko was always hard to embed, which is why WebKit was developed by Apple and then widespread in open source projects.
More accurately, why WebKit was forked from khtml by Apple.
Sure. KHTML wasn’t embeddable outside KDE either until Apple made that happen.
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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