Blink the web engine Chromium is using is a fork of the WebCore component of WebKit,which was originally a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. So it is other way around. You are right I the sense that the biggest contributor to WebKit is Google.
Yeah, I found out about this tidbit of history not too long ago and I think it’s really neat!
Goes to show how open development is often at the forefront of innovation, or when it isn’t, it ends up better than the crippled proprietary counterparts.
Thank god iGNUcius for copyleft, otherwise the web landscape could be much grimmer today
@Bro666 there was a 1980s software millionaire whose web site's links wouldn't work right with Konqueror because his link-decoration code violated the DTD spec, relying on Firefox's quirks mode. I pointed this out via email and his response was "My code is correct and no one uses Konqueror any more and it's garbage anyway!" — at roughly the very moment Apple swallowed KHTML.