Monday, March 24, 2008

In WebKit we Trust!

WebKit started out as a fork by Apple off of KDE's KHTML. Now WebKit is the worlds most advanced rendering engine, the community developing WebKit might be closely related to Apple, but Google, Nokia, and Trolltech (the people behind the Qt framework used in KDE) are also contributing to WebKit and integrating it into their current and future products.
WebKit is the best rendering engine of this decade and will continue to be for the next decade.  Nokia is using it for its Series 60 browser, and Google for its Android platform, and it will be be used in Konqueror 4.1 and the future release of GNOME's Epiphany, or so I've heard. So it is obvious that WebKit will become the de facto (nearlly) rendering engine.
WebKit is another example of the importance of GPL and LGPL, open source innovation and how community and corporations cooperation can bring the best of the best to millions of users.
Take that evil Microsoft with your evil IE and Trident rendering engine.

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