Yes, WebKit was based on KHTML and KJS. Even in the beginning, we made a few fundamental changes. Some of those were folded back in, but eventually those differences grew much, much larger.
There actually were some sites (in Europe, as I recall) that behaved a bit better when "KHTML" was in the user agent string.
I also included it as a nod to the original project. I wanted to show respect for the fine work of Lars Knoll and the other contributors.
That's quite the story, and it's great that you'd keep a reference to a products origins (even if you didn't have to).
On a side note, is it still true that Apple has an entire /8 block of IP addresses? I know that a variety of companies where given them, but I was under the impression that large portions of most had been bought back/given back for use elsewhere?
well yeah, because you guys were sending huge blobs of text back instead of proper formatted patches. didn't make you the most welcome forkers out there.
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Yes, WebKit was based on KHTML and KJS. Even in the beginning, we made a few fundamental changes. Some of those were folded back in, but eventually those differences grew much, much larger.
There actually were some sites (in Europe, as I recall) that behaved a bit better when "KHTML" was in the user agent string.
I also included it as a nod to the original project. I wanted to show respect for the fine work of Lars Knoll and the other contributors.
That's quite the story, and it's great that you'd keep a reference to a products origins (even if you didn't have to).
On a side note, is it still true that Apple has an entire /8 block of IP addresses? I know that a variety of companies where given them, but I was under the impression that large portions of most had been bought back/given back for use elsewhere?
Apple still has it. You can see the official allocations here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...
The only people to return /8's have been Stanford, the DoD, and a few defense contractors (BBN and Boeing).
I don't know whether the Apple IP addresses were reallocated. I do know that Stanford returned most of its Class A allocation.
Apple still owns and uses the entirety of 17.0.0.0/8.
well yeah, because you guys were sending huge blobs of text back instead of proper formatted patches. didn't make you the most welcome forkers out there.