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CNET News: Open-Source Divorce for Apple’s Safari?

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“Two years after it selected open-source rendering engine KHTML
as the basis of its Safari Web browser, Apple Computer has proposed
resolving compatibility conflicts by scrapping that code base in
favor of its own.

“In an e-mail seen by CNET News.com, a leading Apple browser
developer suggested that architects of the KHTML rendering
engine–the heart of a browser–consider abandoning the KHTML code
base, or ‘tree,’ in favor of Apple’s version, called
WebCore…”


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