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Mozilla is a sinking ship. (feddit.org)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Please remember that Webkit is based on KHTML, the browsing engine that Konqueror, the webbrowser in the KDE suite, used.

So Apple forked KHTML, made WebKit, Safari, Chrome and loads of other browsers used it and improved it, then Google forked WebKit, and made Blink, their current browsing engine

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You could technically fork Blink but the question is whether you have the resources to keep up with web standards. The Web is effectively the universal UI toolkit these days and the pace of development reflects that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why fork? Aren’t all of the major engines open source? People can choose one and build a browser around it and leave out the cruft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You'd need to fork if you decided that you don't like the direction an engine is moving towards. Other than that there's no real reason.