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Re:Safari is the new IE by Someone on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:23AM (#9805399)
"the re-ignition of the "browser wars" when Google launched Chrome, and Apple got serious with Safari by moving to WebKit"

Moving to WebKit? Only if you count CyberDog, I guess. Safari was always WebKit based.

Also, your phrasing could be read as if Chrome came before Safari, but Safari is from 2003 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_version_history), Chrome from 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_release_history).

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Re:Safari is the new IE by philwelch on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:28AM (#9805437)
Not only was Safari always WebKit based, WebKit is Apple's browser engine (forked from KHTML and open sourced) that Chrome used to use until they forked it.
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Re:Safari is the new IE by riquito on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:44AM (#9805586)
And it's a fork of the KHTML engine used by the Konqueror web browser for the KDE project
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Re:Safari is the new IE by ttflee on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:55AM (#9805691)
Back in 1995, Internet Explorer then was licensed after Mosaic, and for Mozilla the name was coined as 'Mosaic Killer'.
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Re:Safari is the new IE by andrewvc on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:42AM (#9805566)
And WebKit was actually forked from KHTML which was KDE's engine.
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Re:Safari is the new IE by gnufied on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @02:04PM (#9807230)
Apple had little choice other than to Open Source Webkit unless they wanted to violate LGPL licence which forces - source code of any derivative work to be released back to the user.
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Re:Safari is the new IE by josefresco on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:12AM (#9805830)
My mistake, my comment was penned rather quickly and emotionally (typical). I should have verified my memory with actual homework, the revised timeline does not change my opinion ;)
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