> We also chose to build it the hard way by not forking Chromium
Are they building off firefox/servo/ladybird? I couldn’t find a quick answer but the ios/mac Orion is based on WebKit (I guess webkit is further up the fork ancestry than Chromium)?
Kde html -> webkit -> blink (which is the html of chrome). There is a huge work around the mere rendering engine, to the point that its way more common to fork the whole browser rather than just the low level engine.
Skip the rehash and read the official announcement https://blog.kagi.com/update-orion-linux-windows
The thread from 2 days ago with a solid amount of discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941447
> We also chose to build it the hard way by not forking Chromium
Are they building off firefox/servo/ladybird? I couldn’t find a quick answer but the ios/mac Orion is based on WebKit (I guess webkit is further up the fork ancestry than Chromium)?
Kde html -> webkit -> blink (which is the html of chrome). There is a huge work around the mere rendering engine, to the point that its way more common to fork the whole browser rather than just the low level engine.
Why not open-source all platforms?
Sad :( I don't really care that much because I wouldn't switch from Firefox anyway, and I don't blame Kagi at all. But still -- a shame!