Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”

Re:Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all... by reaperducer on Saturday June 22, 2019 @07:35PM (#20252338)

Perhaps he means this: "The WebKit project was started within Apple by Don Melton on June 25, 2001"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit

Amusingly, the Wikipedia article begins with the line "WebKit is a browser engine used in Apple's Safari browser and other products."

But the DDG preview starts with the line "WebKit is a browser engine used in Google's Chrome browser and other products."

I wonder if there's an edit war going on in that article.

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Re:Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all... by scarejunba on Saturday June 22, 2019 @08:02PM (#20252423)

Surely they would have just gone with the original KHTML or some Gecko-based thing instead. I don't think we wouldn't have Chrome, just that it may look different.

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Re:Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all... by Izkata on Sunday June 23, 2019 @12:47AM (#20253360)

Looks like DDG just happened to index it during the 11 days last year when it was changed to Chrome. Not so much an edit war as good/bad timing.

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