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donmelton on Dec 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: When I first heard the name "Safari"

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.

gioele on Dec 20, 2012 [–]

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

donmelton on Dec 20, 2012 | [–]

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

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