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masklinn on Sept 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project

> Not even Google started from scratch. They started from WebKit and used their billions to overhaul

And WebKit didn’t start from scratch either, it started from khtml.

A few years ago there used to be 4 active browser lineages, now there are just 2.

Andrew_nenakhov on Sept 12, 2022 [–]

It's a pity Opera just died. Something something patents was given as a reason they didn't publish source code under some Free license

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