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Konqueror. The browser that was open-source from day 1 (back when Mozilla was still Netscape), that wrote their own first-class rendering engine with a tiny fraction of the money or developers that Mozilla has. I often wonder how history might've been different if they'd got the money and attention that Mozilla did.



They did?

KHTML became WebKit. I'm sure many of the original authors moved along with it. And WebKit is far more popular than Gecko.


I guess, but that's ten years later than the time period I was thinking about.




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