• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Doesn’t Safari use a different codebase? It’s not available on non-Apple platforms, but it’s good to know that there are still engineers working on a different codebase.

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      21 hours ago

      Chrome is definitely a fork of Safari in a way. Or more accurately, Blink is a fork of Webkit.

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        19 hours ago

        So really, all modern browsers are either forks of KHTML / KJS or are based on the Mozilla codebase. But, at least right now, there are 3 separate engineering teams working on 3 independent codebases. Which hopefully will mitigate some of the issues you get when one company completely controls a software “ecosystem”.