• magguzu@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    I wish Apple would open source Safari, or at least make some “Safarium” others can build on. Would be an instant third player without all the growing pains.

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      29 days ago

      The core of Safari (WebKit) is open source. If it weren’t they’d be violating the GPL license of KHTML.

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        29 days ago

        Ah, admittedly I don’t know much. Could another browser build on it like Chromium or Firefox?

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          29 days ago

          Smaller browsers built on webkit do exist; see ‘Epiphany’, ‘surf’, ‘luakit’, and ‘Nyxt’. Qt’s web component used to be based on webkit as well, though they’ve switched to Blink (Chromium).

          Unfortunately, none of the browsers listed above are 100% sufficient to replace Firefox. They all rely on GTK bindings on webkit, which has its own quirks; and none have support for webextensions.

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          29 days ago

          Yes! In fact, Chromium was originally a fork of WebKit, as WebKit was a fork of KHTML. In both cases the codebases have diverged quite significantly though.

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      29 days ago

      I said they’re the new IE for a reason.

      The w3c standard: ok so we all agreed that this feature will be placed in the body tag

      Blink: ofc, that’s what I’ve been telling you

      Gecko: sure, idc

      WebKit: yeah nah, put it in the html

      So many little senseless gotchas like that that exist for no reason that to be iSpecial