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The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 31:47 Brendan Eich That was Dave Hyatt's other browser.
- ▶ 31:48 Brendan Eich Dave wrote prolifically.
- ▶ 31:56 Brendan Eich And Dave works for Apple.
- ▶ 31:57 Brendan Eich He went there in 2001, I believe.
- ▶ 31:59 Brendan Eich He kind of made Safari because he knew how to make the KHTML engine web compatible, and it was from Linux, and it wasn't battle-tested in the field against mass market users, so it didn't load websites properly.
- ▶ 32:12 Brendan Eich Eventually, that led to WebKit being forked from KHTML in 2005, but getting Dave at Apple was quite a coup for Don Melton, the manager at the time of Safari, who was also ex Netscape.
- ▶ 37:56 Brendan Eich Dave Hyatt and Maciej Stachowiak and others at Apple had said, let's stop patch bombing KHTML.