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		kalleboo on May 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when... > To apple's credit, they've provided a web standards based browser to a mobile landscape that didn't have one (at the time) and which spawned many other web standards based browsers like Chrome. As I recall it, Nokia started using WebKit on Symbian before the iPhone came out.

RandallBrown on May 11, 2012 | [–]

Apple forked KHTML to create WebKit. They kept it open source though and now lots of companies (Nokia, Google, etc.) contribute to it.

ozten on May 11, 2012 | | [–]

I have a US bias, from my POV they provided the first mainstream web browser, but sure...

plmokjnihbugv on May 12, 2012 | [–]

Hahaha, thank you for providing this brilliant example of a blind anti-Apple troll.

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