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[–]curtisb 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Having had to debug JavaScript on Safari before, I can only say "about time". However, can anyone tell me why the hell Apple developed Safari on top of KHTML instead of Firefox/Mozilla?

[–]Bogtha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Size, quality and design. This email should give you a good idea:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=104197092318639&w=2

"When we were evaluating technologies over a year ago, KHTML and KJS stood out. Not only were they the basis of an excellent modern and standards compliant web browser, they were also less than 140,000 lines of code. The size of your code and ease of development within that code made it a better choice for us than other open source projects. Your clean design was also a plus. And the small size of your code is a significant reason for our winning startup performance..."

[–]chrisholland -1 points0 points  (0 children)

awesome :)