It's interesting how WebKit rose from obscurity to being at the verge of replacing gecko.
Until Apple took it over, the engine behind the KDE browser was an obscure piece of software that didn't get much attentio. After Apple took it over and polished it, then Nokia (QT) moved from its own KDE engine to WebKit, and when both Google and Adobe embraced it, web developers that were not previously Apple-Centric paid attention. Not to mention that being the rendering engine for iPhone also elevated its status as a rendering engine to test against.
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