WebKit

WebKit is a library of functions making it possible the developers to easily integrate an Engine of returned Web pages in their software.

Webkit is available under license BSD and LGPL.
Originally reserved for the operating system Mac OS X (starting from the version 10.3 Panther ). It is in the course of bearing towards Linux and Windows

Webkit is a Fork engine of returned KHTML of the project KDE used in particular in the navigator Konqueror.
It integrates two pennies blibliothèques: WebCore and JavaScriptCore corresponding respectively to KHTML and KJS.

In 2003, Apple, Inc. strongly contributed to improve KHTML, in order to make more it “compatible” more robust and.

Use

The principal use of Webkit is the creation of navigators Web.

Safari - the first navigator based on Webkit of Apple.
OmniWeb - a navigator Web produced by Omni Group for Mac OS X.
Shiira - a free navigator of which the goal is to fill the gaps of Safari.
Midori - a light navigator integrated into GTK
SunriseBrowser
DeskBrowse
Epiphany - a navigator based on gecko for the moment, but a backend webkit is in the course of writing
Android - the operating system Open Source from Google for the cellphones.

It is also used by software of creation of Web site.

IWeb - Software of creation of Web sites developed by Apple and included in ILife '06.
RapidWeaver - a software of creation of simple Web sites of use and respecting the standards W3C.
Sandvox - a software of creation of simple Web sites of use and respecting the standards W3C.
Adobe Apollo - an editor of Web site to function in Local

Other types of software utlisent it too.

Email - software of mail of Mac OS X.
Dashboard - software of widgets of Mac OS X.
TextMate - a text editor.
Yelp - a software to read documentation under Gnome
Liferea - a reader of flow rss

History

the January 7th 2003 Apple announces WebKit with the Macworld Expo with the launching of the navigator Web Safari.

the June 7th 2005, Dave Hyatt to develop it Safari announces on its Blog that Apple returns the totality of Webkit Open-source (before only Webcore and JavascriptCore were it).

The source code at summer placed under CVS and software of report/ratio of bug Bugzilla at summer set up.

the June 13rd 2005, Nokia announced that it was developing a navigator based on Webkit for his range S60.

the December 15th 2005, the support of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is integrated into the Build standard.

the January 10th 2006, the source code of Webkit at summer transferred from CVS to Subversion.

the June 11th 2007 at the time of an opening speech to San Francisco, Steve Jobs announces officially the port of Webkit towards Windows.

External bonds

webkit.org (in) - the official site of Superfine WebKit
' Safari (in) - the blog dedicated to the development of WebKit
official Page of Apple (in) - the description of WebKit by Apple
Apple Documentation (in) - Introduction to the Objective-C programming and WebKit by Apple

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