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May 25, 2005

Expertise and Open Source

The brains behind Apple's Safari worked on Firefox.

Whats another example? Well I guess I can mention Safari, since I haven't for a while :). Sure Safari is also a "fork" but let's ignore that for a while. The main developer of Safari, David Hyatt, worked on the Netscape, Camino and Firefox browsers prior to working on Safari (and KHTML). The man obviously knows his stuff, and hence MacOS users get a browser that is compliant with the latest web standards (plus it's open source as well). Whoever hired Hyatt was pretty smart. I'd bet than even if Apple didn't get the head start they did from...

 

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Posted on May 25, 2005 02:28 AM by Firefo84.
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