That person meant that if all the main browsers move to Chromium, then it will dominate and cause a monoculture; the same way that Internet Explorer caused a monoculture in the 90s and 00s.

Pointing out that there are competitors doesn't change that their presence doesn't overthrow the monoculture. After all, Gecko was around for a long time and Firefox did become very popular very quickly after version 2; but realistically, it took until Apple put WebKit on iOS for any real dents to be made.

Also, I think Konqueror still uses KHTML by default. I don't know if Konqueror tracks WebKit, but I think they're rather different these days.

Unfortunately there's near 0 development behind KHTML and Konqueror. That's been the case for many years now.

KHTML was the only community driven browser engine and thank god for it. God knows what the browse landscape would've been without it.

That's a shame. Back when I was a full-time Linuxer, I used Konqueror as my default browser. The good ol' days of KHTML.

How could it be a monoculture with 14% market share?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Why are you citing Safari's 14% market share when the person to whom you responded was stating that if it's true that Edge will become Chromium-based, then browsers running on Chromium will represent something like 66% of the world's web engine share. Heck, it's already 59%, over half. With Opera, Vivaldi, and Edge (or whatever Anaheim will become), we're talking two thirds of all browsers being based on one engine.

That's the monoculture.

Edit: didn't realise you were responding to someone refuting what you had said, haha. so basically we agree, I just thought you were someone else.

I'm saying that WebKit can't be a monoculture because Safari only has 14% market share. It doesn't matter if other devices and browsers that no one actually uses are WebKit.

Gotcha. Yeah, it seems a lot of people are stuck in the past idea that WebKit dominates. It used to dominate in mobile and it certainly a lot of WebKit-only extensions eventually became standards — but those days are behind us for everything other than iOS.

And while iOS has the greatest market share for mobile, you're right, WebKit doesn't have the greatest market share for general browsers. That's definitely Chromium, now on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, your mum's toaster, just about every 'native' web app…

Side note: I guess we should really be saying Blink, that's the name of the engine. But even if, say, you use Google Chrome on iOS, backed by WebKit, that usually makes you a Google Chrome, backed by Blink, user on the desktop.