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If someone told the young Linux freak me back in the early 2000s that one day Internet Explorer’s rendering engine is based on the KDE rendering engine I would’ve probably died laughing and frozen in horror at the same time.

Yeah, I realize there’s probably nothing left if the old KHTML but it still does give me a chuckle.

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But one wouldn't have been surprised to find out that the Microsoft's KHTML based browser doesn't run on any open source operating system.

IIRC it exists for Android.

Android is open source in the same way that Chrome is. That is to say, not.

I'd contend that it is closer to Chromium as the Googley bits are in Play Services and OEM builds.

Not yet, but a Linux version of Edge is coming later:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-edge-confirmed-comi...

Hah. So true. Not to mention that Windows would one day have available an entirely integrated linux kernel direct from Microsoft[1].

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/

An open source project released by Apple, that Google added a bunch of features to - including DRM, and Microsoft adopted to help unify the web for internal enterprise apps.

What a world we live in.

The story is told well by this user agent string:

   Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6)
     AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
     Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36 Edg/79.0.309.65

"Edg"* , like Chrome, like Safari/AppleWebKit, like KHTML, like Gecko, like Mozilla 5.0.

My lord, this ridiculous header is f'ed (and I don't mean this string, just this entire ridiculous slow-motion trainwreck that requires every browser to pretend to be every browser that ever came before).

\* presuming that spelling means 'please don't lock me out like Edge' -- modern Chromium Opera identifies as OPR, similarly

There's still plenty of references and small but essential stuff. One notorious example that comes to mind is the KURL name that stuck: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink.git/+/maste...

That's awesome!

Although, all copyrights are Apple's on that particular file. I wonder if everything's been done by the book.

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