On: Chrome is not the new IE

[jakelazaroff]

It’s very revisionist history to say that Apple has never been a big standards pusher or implementer. Basically every modern browser engine other than Gecko is descended from Apple’s Webkit.

[rudiv → jakelazaroff]

Apple WebKit itself is descended from KDE's WebKit IIRC.

[jakelazaroff → rudiv]

KDE's browser engine wasn't called WebKit, but you're correct that WebKit began by forking it. That doesn't contradict my point, though.

[blinkingled → jakelazaroff]

Porting KHTML to macOS and honoring its license to keep it open is very different than contributing to the HTML5 standard and implementing cutting edge features quickly. The latter helps with killing Flash more than declaring we are not going to support it.