WebKit, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WebKit comes up
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 35:12 Brendan Eich Rockmelt was when after Chrome came out and was based on the Chrome fork of WebKit, which wasn't its own thing really then, and tried to add social.
- ▶ 38:03 Brendan Eich It'll be run by Apple, but it'll be webkit.org, and it'll be a proper open source project.
- ▶ 38:14 Brendan Eich So there was a gleam in Larry Page's eyes when last I saw him, in 2005, he was saying, yeah, WebKit's so clean.
- ▶ 49:07 Brendan Eich But I couldn't recruit them away from Apple, and I tried to get Hewitt as well, and it would have been a WebKit-based Mozilla browser, but it was too risky.
- ▶ 1:04:10 Brendan Eich We needed all the mobile WebKit lineage that goes into Chromium Blink that's still used on the mobile web.