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submitted 11 months ago by ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Genuine question.

I know they were the scrappy startup doing different cool things. But, what are the most major innovative things that they introduced, improved or just implemented that either revolutionized, improved or spurred change?

I am aware of the possibility of both fanboys and haters just duking it out below. But there's always that one guy who has a fkn well-formatted paragraph of gold. I await that guy.

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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

They took KHTML, a niche rendering engine that nobody had heard of which didn’t work for major websites… and made it into the foundation that backs every browser except FireFox.

KHTML wasn't so bad. "Major websites" at that time meant less than now. It wasn't Facebook/Reddit/Google/Twitter time with everything important being on those platforms.
They did lots of dick moves to prevent their changes from going back to upstream. I'm not sure taking someone else's work and then behaving as if that's a divine blessing is a good thing.
Chromium now is really far from Webkit, and of course from KHTML, which died as its own project relatively recently.

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