WebKit, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where WebKit comes up on Acquired, the Knowledge Project, Latent Space, No Priors
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:05:48 David Rosenthal I suspect one of yours is WebKit.
- ▶ 2:05:51 David Rosenthal I'm not including WebKit here because that was an Apple innovation.
- ▶ 2:13:08 Ben Gilbert In a lot of years, it was actually faster than Chrome, and they would go back and forth, and it really spurred Apple, who was already a steward of WebKit, and they sort of had their own competitive response to Microsoft after Steve Jobs…
- ▶ 2:14:39 David Rosenthal Google Chrome Frame was a plugin for Internet Explorer that replaced IE's JavaScript engine and pulled in the Chrome V-A JavaScript engine, and I think also WebKit.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 53:22 Bret Taylor And then, you know, once web kit became prevalent, the internet evolved a lot faster and it's not the expense of the standards organizations.
No Priors Ep. 33 | With Replit's CEO & Co-Founder Amjad Masad
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.