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Posted Feb 3, 2009 15:08 UTC (Tue) by Chousuke (subscriber, #54562)In reply to: Send a Message by rfunk
Parent article: Apple's touch-screen patent
On the other hand, Webkit is great software, and it's now integrated into Qt as well. My guess is that it will replace KHTML entirely, rather than merging with it.
I agree that Apple could have been more cooperative, but in the end, we have a great, free rendering engine (and a javascript debugger); not solely thanks to Apple, of course, but I feel they deserve some credit for being the driving force behing KHTML's rise from obscurity[1] in the form of Webkit.
[1] I have no data to back up my claim about KHTML being obscure, but I honestly can't think of it as anything other than "the Konqueror engine".
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