Editing KHTML (section)

===Origins===
KHTML was preceded by an earlier engine called ''khtmlw'' or ''the KDE HTML Widget'', developed by Torben Weis and Martin Jones,<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tldf1rT0Rn0 |title=Lars Knoll and George Staikos: From KDE to WebKit |date=26 August 2011 |publisher=[[YouTube]] |access-date=1 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/KDE/kde1-kdelibs |title=KDE/kde1-kdelibs/khtmlw |website=GitHub |language=en |access-date=2020-01-23}}</ref> which implemented support for [[HTML]] 3.2, [[HTTP]] 1.0, and [[Frame (World Wide Web)|HTML frames]], but not the [[Document Object Model|DOM]], [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]], or [[JavaScript]].

KHTML itself came into existence on November 4, 1998,<ref name="auto"/> as a [[fork (software development)|fork]] of the khtmlw library, with some slight refactoring and the addition of [[Unicode]] support and changes to support the move to [[Qt (software)|Qt]] 2. Waldo Bastian<ref>{{cite web |url=https://behindkde.org/node/37/ |title=Waldo Bastian &#124; Behind KDE |website=Behindkde.org |access-date=1 September 2019 |archive-date=11 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411095409/https://behindkde.org/node/37/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> was among those who did the work of creating that early version of KHTML.<ref name="auto"/>