You could very well be right from what you recall Scott, however back then apple did not understand how contributing to OSS worked. They never submitted patches with their changes back afair. It was huge chunks of code. The article you posted states just that.
I'm rather happy with Webkit thought. And as someone else stated cups was acquired by apple, which is, I guess a bit to its advantage. But Webkit seemed to have a rather "bloody" history. :p But yes, that seems to be history.