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Re:Safari is released to the world by sarvinc on Friday January 11, 2013 @10:52AM (#5043153)
"I might add that Chimera -> Camino was the beacon of hope before Safari came out, and once it got going on Mac OS X, other folks got so excited they demanded a cross-platform version which eventually became Firefox."

I'd never heard this and I can't seem to find any references to it. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction?

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Re:Safari is released to the world by ZeroGravitas on Friday January 11, 2013 @11:09AM (#5043248)
As mentioned in the story Dave Hyatt was the main guy behind Chimera, (a streamlined platform native browser using the gecko renderer but ditching mail, composer etc. from Mozilla Suite) and with Blake Ross, behind Phoenix, which became Firefox (a streamlined platform native browser using the gecko renderer but ditching mail, composer etc. from the Mozilla Suite).

Technically, they were both faking the platform native element to some degree, but they were at least trying to fit in with their respective target platform(s).

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Re:Safari is released to the world by sarvinc on Friday January 11, 2013 @11:26AM (#5043339)
Yeah, I just found it in the story! I was an early user of Pheonix but never bothered to learn the history behind the browser.
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