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What is WebKit ?

What is WebKit?

WebKit is an open source layout engine designed by the WebKit Foundation and used by operating systems, web browsers, email-clients, and mobile phones. Some of the most well-known names are:

  • Abrowse
  • Android
  • Google Chrome
  • iCab
  • Konqueror
  • Midori
  • OmniWeb
  • Safari
  • Shiira
  • Sunrise

Here is a brief overview of what you can do with the WebKit Open Source Project. For the latest information, visit webkit.org. If you are new to WebKit and would like to know more before committing your time to its projects, they offer the Surfin’ Safari Blog, Planet WebKit, Project Goals, Keeping in Touch, and Trac options. These options have an overload of information concerning the engine.

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WebKit was originally created as a fork of KHTML as the layout engine for Apple's Safari.

Konqueror's default engine is KHTML.
An alternative layout engine, kwebkitpart, is available from the Extragear. While KHTML is the default web-rendering engine, Konqueror is a modular application and other rendering engines are and have been available. Especially the WebKitPart that uses the KHTML-derived WebKit engine has seen a lot of support in the KDE 4 series.
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