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arsa on Dec 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

They used to support it, but it was killed to prioritize firefox development (and couple of years later they stopped developing mozilla suite).

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.embeddin...

otoh Webkit was originally developed as part of iOS, so embedding was required

saurik on Dec 7, 2018 [–]

WebKit was a fork from KDE and was used to build Safari before iOS existed.

arsa on Dec 7, 2018 | [–]

right, KHTML is still a valid option under linux to build apps. But that's getting so much less (no?) attention from web developers

I bet the ipad prototype from early 2000s actually ran some version of osx&safari

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