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What's the high-level reason for such a big discrepency between WebKit browsers? E.g. I'm confused why some would have :nth-child support and other wouldn't. Do all these companies have their own local forks? Are some using old versions of WebKit?

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Different versions of WebKit, primarily. The chart seems to include every version that has shipped since '07.

I discovered the other day that Android's WebKit forgoes SVG support to save 1mb in the binary... which kind of pisses me off on my Droid, where that is really unnecessary.

But mostly I would say it's timing, you have to freeze at some point and make a stable release.

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