In anticipation of changes to App Store policy, Mozilla is developing an iOS browser that would use its Gecko rendering engine instead of WebKit. Web browsers and apps with web-browsing functionality ...
Microsoft engineers have published benchmark results showing that a Chromium-based browser using its own rendering engine ...
Developers working on WebKit announced late last week that the newest build of the browser engine, which powers both Apple Inc.’s Safari and Google Inc.’s Chrome, has aced all of the requirements of ...
WebKit, which powers both Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome, is the first browser engine to fully pass the Acid3 Web standards test Developers working on WebKit announced late last week that the ...
Maciej Stachowiak of the WebKit team has announced that the browser engine behind Safari is the first to fully pass the Acid3 test, including the test's condition of smooth animation rendering. Acid3 ...
Now Microsoft engineers have documented a performance tax – the performance hit that iOS users today endure because Apple requires iOS browsers, with theoretical exceptions, to use the WebKit browser ...
Apple told us that because of the WebKit restriction, it is able to address security issues across all browsers on the iPhone, for all iPhone users, quickly and effectively (given there is only one ...
A new experimental effort in Chrome aims to run the proper Blink engine on iOS instead of Apple’s required WebKit engine. On iOS, all web browsers, including third ...
Creating some consternation in the Web development community, Opera Software is switching from a home-built rendering engine to the more widely used open-source WebKit, now employed in the Apple ...
Is there something going on in the world of web browsers that we don’t know about? Has WebKit developed an awful affliction that all the major players want to be shot of? Because that’s what it ...
If you haven’t updated your iPhone yet, a single bad web page could be enough to steal personal data right out of Safari. Apple released iOS 26.5 in late May 2026, and the patch notes are sobering: ...
Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit browser requirement in three jurisdictions, as authorities around the globe try to jumpstart competition in the mobile software industry.… Japan last week ...