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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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