> does that make Opera and Safari clones of Chrome?
Umm, Webkit spun out of Safari, so that would make Chrome the "clone" of Safari.
Which is rather your point. Chrome has made a lot of changes to Webkit over the years, and these days appears to be putting more effort into it than Apple is.
Implying that WebKit somehow stalled because Google forked it into Blink is silly. Apple and Google are both investing heavily in their browsers, just with different priorities. Doesn't take more than just looking at the WebKit blog to see that.
Umm, Webkit spun out of Safari, so that would make Chrome the "clone" of Safari.
Which is rather your point. Chrome has made a lot of changes to Webkit over the years, and these days appears to be putting more effort into it than Apple is.