{"id":33,"date":"2011-08-24T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:23:53","slug":"webkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2011\/08\/24\/webkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Webkit Turns 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is the tenth anniversary of Apple\u2019s open-source&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webkit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WebKit<\/a>&nbsp;codebase, which powers nearly every relevant web browser and engine used today, including Safari, Chrome, and even WebOS itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see the first commit to the repository&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/trac.webkit.org\/changeset\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. It\u2019s worth noting that Apple didn\u2019t announce Safari until&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_ZNXQujgXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macworld San Francisco 2003<\/a>, nearly 15 months later, and WebKit wasn\u2019t fully open-source&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160324063209\/http:\/\/lists.apple.com\/archives\/Webcore-dev\/2005\/Jun\/msg00009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">until June 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was at that Macworld keynote. Hard to believe Safari is just 8 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alanquatermain\/status\/106419340278104064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HTML5<\/a>&nbsp;on Twitter, via Jim Dovey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the tenth anniversary of Apple\u2019s open-source&nbsp;WebKit&nbsp;codebase, which powers nearly every relevant web browser and engine used today, including Safari, Chrome, and even WebOS itself. You can see the first commit to the repository&nbsp;here. It\u2019s worth noting that Apple didn\u2019t announce Safari until&nbsp;Macworld San Francisco 2003, nearly 15 months later, and WebKit wasn\u2019t fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}