The WebKit rendering engine used in many Linux applications is a complete security mess. That’s the takeaway from a blog post by Michael Catanzaro, who works on GNOME’s WebKitGTK+ project. He’s ...

While some people may have been surprised that Google has finally made Blink, its own fork of the popular WebKit Web browser engine, in Web developer circles this move came as no surprise. As Adam ...

Google announced today that it is forking the WebKit rendering engine on which its Chrome browser is based. The company is naming its new engine “Blink.” The WebKit project was started by Apple in ...

There is one major web rendering engine that grew entirely out of the open source world: KHTML is KDE's web renderer which was built from the ground up by the open source community with very little ...

If you own an iPhone and have been tapping “Remind Me Later” on software updates, this is the week to stop. A vulnerability in WebKit, the engine that renders every webpage on every iPhone browser, is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"Anything that renders HTML on iOS is affected," according to Haddouche, which includes any app that uses WebKit, Apple's rendering engine of choice. While this extends to other browsers than Safari, ...

The raft of iOS changes Apple dropped in the European Union yesterday, as it prepares for enforcement of the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) to kick in March 7, include some big developments around ...