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0 pointsdonmelton13y ago0 comments

I'll write another post about why we called it "Alexander." You're not far from the mark about it being related to "Alexander the Great." But not for the reason you think.

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gioele13y ago

Given that Safari/WebKit is based on KHTML, I'd say that Alexander was named after KDE's Konqueror.

donmeltonOP13y ago

Yes, that is the relationship. All of the components were named after (K)conquerors.

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0 pointsdonmelton13y ago0 comments

I'll write another post about why we called it "Alexander." You're not far from the mark about it being related to "Alexander the Great." But not for the reason you think.

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gioele13y ago

Given that Safari/WebKit is based on KHTML, I'd say that Alexander was named after KDE's Konqueror.

donmeltonOP13y ago

Yes, that is the relationship. All of the components were named after (K)conquerors.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse