Unfortunately, KHTML was discontinued in 2023
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laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
as Firefox is the only browser that can’t trace its lineage back to Apple and WebKit
What a slap on Konqueror’s face.
ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I mean yes no kinda Konqueror simply accepted a bunch of downstream patches, including a name change.
…more or less. It could for a long time use all three of KHTML, WebKit (fork of KHTML) and QtWebEngine (Blink wrapped for Qt, that is, a fork of WebKit), they recently removed KHTML support because noone was updating it and it hasn’t been the default for ages.
If they hadn’t implemented multi-engine support in the past they probably would’ve switched over to “whatever Qt provides” right-out, it’s KDE after all. Ultimately they’re providing a desktop, not a web browser. Back in the days they did decide to roll their own instead of going with Firefox but it was never a “throw project resources at it” kind of situation, there were simply KDE people who felt like working on it. Web standards were a lot less involved back around the turn of the millennium, and also new and shiny. Back in the days people thought that HTML 4.01 Strict and XHMTL would be a thing that servers actually would start to output instead of the usual tagsoup.
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s quite the bummer. But still. Saying that almost all browsers can trace their lineage to Apple and Webkit is technically correct, but it’s just a half-truth. As Apple and Webkit were once based on KHTML.
neutron@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
And text only browsers too.
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t really see it this way it’s just marketing. Saying “all other browsers descend from big bad corporate Apple” is scary, saying “all other browsers descend from another open source project” is meh.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 11 months ago
“It’s all KHTML”, I heard.
laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You have a point. But still, they could have added an “ackshually” footnote or something.