Apple and Google still represent the bulk of reviewed commits contributing to the ongoing development of WebKit, the open source web browser engine that powers Safari and Chrome, among others. Google ...

Earlier this month Opera announced that it would be moving from Presto to WebKit as the engine at the core of the browser. The move to Opera WebKit will allow the development team to concentrate more ...

'text-wrap' is a shorthand CSS property that controls how text wraps within an element. Among these, 'text-wrap: pretty' is an algorithm that allows user agents to prioritize good layout over speed, i ...

Developers Alp Toker and George Wright of Collabora are working on a WebKit-based backend for Nokia’s modular Maemo Web Browser that will leverage Nokia’s Engine Abstraction Layer and the WebKit GTK ...

The open-source WebKit HTML rendering engine is rapidly gaining ground on the Linux platform where it is increasingly being adopted by conventional desktop applications for content display. Ongoing ...

Apple’s WebKit has taken a higher profile in Web Standards terms, following the appointment of the company’s WebKit manager, Maciej Stachowiak, to the World Wide Web Consortium’s HTML Working Group.

The news that Opera is shutting down the development of its own browser rendering engine and moving to the open source WebKit engine caused quite a stir earlier this week. With WebKit powering the ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a developers’ conference in Australia yesterday he thinks the idea of using Webkit as the rendering engine for Internet Explorer is “interesting” and that his company ...