cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057

I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

  • Dojan@lemmy.world
    48·
    1 year ago

    Hmm. Good point.

    Could be because Safari is using WebKit and so people assume that Safari and Chrome works the same way because back in the day they were quite close.

    WebKit is Apple’s fork of KHTML and KJS, both originally made by the KDE project (yes that KDE) for the Konqueror browser.

    Google used WebKit (WebCore specifically) when building Chromium, but replaced KJS with a new JavaScript engine called V8. V8 is still used in Chromium today, but also went on to become Node.js

    Apple forked KJS, their version is now called JavaScriptCore.

    The support for Safari could be because of an assumption that since Chromium was built from Safari, they’d work more or less the same, but they don’t.