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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by toyg on Friday January 11, 2013 @06:31AM (#5042250)
> Mozilla turned out fine

Not exactly. There's a reason WebKit saw wild adoption by all sorts of projects, while Gecko adoption stagnated. The Mozilla codebase is still too complicated for most people.

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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by mistercow on Friday January 11, 2013 @01:08PM (#5044022)
Arguably, though, even if Gecko's code base were taken down to be smaller and easier to use than WebKit (and I have no idea how it actually compares today), it would be at a tremendous disadvantage because so many projects have incorporated WebKit.

If I want to use WebKit in a new project today, I can find a ton of people online who have done so in the past and use their experience to get me through it. If I want to use Gecko in a new project, I will have a considerably smaller amount of outside experience to lean on.

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