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The Seamonkey Project [1] is the current state of the Mozilla Application Suite[2], which Netscape 6 and 7 were branched from[3][4]. Written in C++ mostly.

Some of us have been using Gecko as their renderer for almost sixteen years now. Seems KHTML(w), the base of both Webkit and Blink[5], is the same age. Seems we've gotten a good run out of the existing codebases. In fact, this means that Gecko (and khtml) have been in use twice as long as NCSA Mosaic, which the first Netscape was based on[6]. Imagine how Spolsky must feel about the Servo rewrite.

1. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

2. https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite#Marke...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_6

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_7

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML#KHTML_and_Apple

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29



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