This week at LWN: WebKit rising

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 17, 2008 5:47 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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Once upon a time, there were no usable free web browsers for the Linux environment; the binary-only Netscape releases were all that was available to us. For many, the solution to the problem was to be found in the release of the Netscape source code; some years later, we got the Mozilla and Firefox browsers (based on the Gecko rendering engine) from this work. The KDE project, though, took a different route in the late 1990's, developing the KHTML renderer to use with the Konqueror application.

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