On the occasion of #WorldWideWebDay, it's worth a mention that #Oslo, #Norway has been instrumental in giving birth to two most influential browser engines - #KHTML and #Presto. And browsers such as #Opera and #Vivaldi.
A building in #Oslo has a great history: an incubator of the #KHTML & #Presto engines. Presto had a massive influence on web standards & KHTML went on to form the basis of #Webkit and #Blink, on which most web browsers are now based, including Vivaldi.
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@keithzg @kpeace @aral I wonder what the #Konqueror / #KHTML developers browsed with as they were building their software, hm?

@courtney definitely worth pointing out especially to any Brave users who might be using it because of Eich's history but #WebKit was also a fork of #KHTML / #KJS which I want to mention to credit all the free software devs who worked on the engine years and years before Apple got involved.

Sometimes I wish there was a good #Qt frontend to #Gecko (or whatever the most recent iteration of the #Firefox plugin is called). There are multiple ones for #WebKit and its forks (unsurprising, given that WebKit has its roots in #KHTML), but as a matter of principle I would rather prefer to keep using the minority engine, my small contribution to resistance (weak as it may be) to Google's stranglehold of the Internet.

@jack And this is frankly sad, and pretty disrespectful to @kde for perverting #KHTML this badly.

A trip down memory lane:

"Safari Is Released To The World" [2013], Don Melton (https://donmelton.com/2013/01/10/safari-is-released-to-the-world/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34304520

#Safari #WebKit #KHTML #Konqueror #SteveJobs #MacWorld #Presentation #Rehearsal #KeyNote

@charlietuna @donmelton Fun fact: #Safari is based on #Konqueror (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror). And to their credit, Apple has given a lot back to the open source community. :)

(At least, #WebKit, the engine that powers Safari, is based on #KHTML, the engine that powers Konqueror. WebKit was then forked to make #Blink, the engine that powers #Chrome and all #Chromium based browsers.)

“Chrome, 10 Years Later”, Evan Martin (https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2022/12/chrome.html).

Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/x8uv9q/chrome_10_years_later

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33917157

#Chrome #Browser #Google #Internet #Web #WebBrowser #Reflection #OpenSource #WebKit #KHTML #Blink