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		soperj on Nov 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple has made it difficult to use web-based techn... > Google HAD an opportunity to ensure that one browser engine ruled the web—-but they chose to fork WebKit into Blink, in part _because_ they didn’t want to share the work they were doing. Apple had the same choice when it forked KHTML to produce Webkit.

darklion on Nov 9, 2019 [–]

KHTML wasn’t anywhere near the same position as WebKit when Apple forked it. At the time, KHTML was niche beyond its use in KDE.

When Google forked WebKit, Safari and Chrome combined were something like 40% of the market.

soperj on Nov 9, 2019 | [–]

so?

Chrome was clearly the leader. Apple should have moved to their fork then if anything.

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