If you were secretly hoping that all web browsers would one day give up and adopt the WebKit rendering engine, we've got some bad news for you – Google just crushed those dreams. Google has announced ...

As I understand it, people involved with this browser have been contemplating moving to webkit, and this would be necessary if it were not to disappear into an oubliette because of what Mozilla are ...

Last week Microsoft contributed "an early open source HTML5 Labs Pointer Events prototype of the W3C Working Draft" to WebKit. Wait, what? The contribution to WebKit is part of a definite trend inside ...

It sounds like something from a galaxy far, far away, but in truth it was not that long ago that the web was littered with sites that proudly proclaimed "works best in Internet Explorer." Thankfully ...

Opera is that company that everyone knows about but never really stopped to understand why it is so important. The Norway-based company has always been an ankle-biter, pushing the envelope and calling ...

Both Chrome and Safari will move faster when uncoupled from each other, Google argues. But it's not just about technology: Social issues also factored into the schism. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Orion for Mac just launched as a new browser, offering a WebKit foundation, speed and privacy emphasis, and focus on Apple users.

Google announced last night that it’s going to stop using WebKit—the rendering engine currently used by the likes of Safari and Chrome to display web pages—in favor of its own solution which will be ...

Qt always has included the ability to render basic HTML and download files with HTTP. With the release of version 4.4.0, this has been taken to a whole new level with the inclusion of WebKit.

Web engines are what take Web page content such as HTML files, and formatting instructions, for example Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and transform these into the page you see on your screen. They are ...