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darklion on Nov 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple has made it difficult to use web-based techn...

KHTML wasn’t anywhere near the same position as WebKit when Apple forked it. At the time, KHTML was niche beyond its use in KDE.

When Google forked WebKit, Safari and Chrome combined were something like 40% of the market.

soperj on Nov 9, 2019 [–]

so?

Chrome was clearly the leader. Apple should have moved to their fork then if anything.

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