• QuazarOmega@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, making it with WebKit already puts it at a disadvantage, will it be open source at least?

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      1 year ago

      They’re working on it. They’re starting to open source some of the components. The faq mentions they have a really small team right now and lack some of the manpower there, but it’s the goal.

      https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#oss

      https://github.com/OrionBrowser

      As far as WebKit goes, it’s the 2nd most popular engine, thanks to the iPhone. From some stats I saw from a large CDN it had about 20% market share. I think it’s good there are browsers that don’t use Blink. Everyone just piggy backing on Chromium puts the entire internet in bed with Google and leads to an IE situation where web developers stop testing with other browsers, then Google will think they can do whatever they want and they set the standards for the entire internet. Having multiple popular engines require everyone work together to support web standards.