• @GhostMatter@lemmy.ca
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    1510 months ago

    KHTML was the basis of WebKit and then Blink/Chromium, so the community did make something. It was just overtaken by the corporate projects, for those same reasons you mention.

    • @long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works
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      1810 months ago

      those days the web was way simpler than it is now. complexity has doomed every web engine not maintained by a mega corp (and some that were, Microsoft killed their own).