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KHTML is a discontinued browser engine that was developed by the KDE project. It originated as the engine of the Konqueror browser in the late 1990s, but active development ceased in 2016. It was officially discontinued in 2023.

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Software.name
KHTML
Software.screenshot
Konqueror web browser screenshot of nl wikipedia.png
Software.caption
Konqueror using KHTML to render the Dutch Wikipedia front page in 2009
Software.developer
KDE
Software.discontinued
yes
Software.programming language
C++
Software.genre
Browser engine
Software.license
GNU Lesser General Public License

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Konqueror opensuse112.png
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source code repository URL
github.com/KDE/khtml
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  • History
  • Origins
  • Re-write and improvement
  • Other modules
  • Sunsetting
  • Standards compliance
  • Descendants
  • See also
  • References
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KHTML is a discontinued browser engine that was developed by the KDE project. It originated as the engine of the Konqueror browser in the late 1990s, but active development ceased in 2016. It was officially discontinued in 2023.

Built on the KParts framework and written in C++, KHTML had relatively good support for Web standards during its prime. Engines forked from KHTML are used by most of the browsers that are widely used today, including WebKit (Safari) and Blink (Google Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi and Brave).

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