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> WebKit.

> A web browser designed from the ground-up.

Both of these can't be true. Perhaps they're thinking of Ladybird?

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WebKit is a web engine, not a browser.

WebKit is also not the ground.

Ladybird is dogshit

Ladybird is still in early development. They don't provide binaries.

I don't think it's fair to deem it "dogshit" at this point.

Can't you build (and design before that) an OS from ground up around Linux?

Well, no, to be clear! There are a lot of decisions that are made already for you when you use something else as a foundation.

WebKit is a rendering engine, not a browser. It's a bit like saying "that isn't original art because you used Earth physics that govern how paint flows and dries.

The particular choice of the marketing phrase "from the ground up" sort of invites this kind of commentary on HN. This is hardly the first WebKit-based browser, so any commenter specifically holding their breath for a new, independent rendering and layout engine or JS engine might feel inclined to roll their eyes and snark.

I dunno. It's more like saying "that isn't your original art because you didn't paint it, only provided the frame". A pretty elaborate frame, yes, but only the frame, not the painting.

I think this is underselling the browser UX. In many ways, Safari, Orion, Chrome, Brave, Opera, are all very different products despite all sharing the WebKit lineage.

Chrome, Brave and Opera are as much WebKit as Safari and Kagi Orion are KHTML. I wholeheartly agree on the UX part, though.

How dare you paint without making your own pigments!

You make your own pigments? I hope you didn't re-use already existing atoms for that

Sir, you have a license for those electrons?

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