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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by derefr on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:51PM (#18622645)
I'm wondering the same, and naively, it seems likely.

But on the other hand, Google forked Blink away from Webkit specifically so it wouldn't have to share control of the codebase with Apple.

Do you think Google is willing to share control over Blink with Microsoft?

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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by jhall1468 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:05PM (#18622789)
Google forked Blink because how Apple and Google saw the future of browsers drastically differed. I'm going to venture a guess that Microsoft selected Chromium because their vision is closer to Google's than either Firefox or Webkit.
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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by pcwalton on Thursday December 06, 2018 @07:47PM (#18624103)
> Google forked Blink because how Apple and Google saw the future of browsers drastically differed.

That's not accurate. Google forked Blink for many reasons (WebKit2, dev tools policies, etc.) that collectively added up to a dysfunctional relationship.

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Re:Goodbye, EdgeHTML by jhall1468 on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:19PM (#18630079)
How is that any different than what I suggested? They both wanted to go in very different directions.
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