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Maxthon is based on IE.

IIRC, it uses the Trident rendering engine, but all the browser UX and chrome is custom. Most browsers are wrapping webkit today, does that make Opera and Safari clones of Chrome? Not sure.

> does that make Opera and Safari clones of Chrome?

Umm, Webkit spun out of Safari, so that would make Chrome the "clone" of Safari.

Which is rather your point. Chrome has made a lot of changes to Webkit over the years, and these days appears to be putting more effort into it than Apple is.

> Umm, Webkit spun out of Safari, so that would make Chrome the "clone" of Safari.

webkit/safari was spun off of KHTML/Konqueror, so would that make Safari a "clone" of Konqueror

edit: spelling

Thanks, I'd forgotten the KHTML genesis, which is significant :-(

*Konqueror

KHTML -> WebKit -> Blink

Implying that WebKit somehow stalled because Google forked it into Blink is silly. Apple and Google are both investing heavily in their browsers, just with different priorities. Doesn't take more than just looking at the WebKit blog to see that.

Yes! Thanks, I'd forgotten about KHTML blush.

I use Safari by preference and wish Apple would push harder, but perhaps my attitude is a little unfair.

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