WebKit, the open source engine that underpins Internet browsers including Apple’s Safari browser, has announced a new tracking prevention policy that takes the strictest line yet on the background and ...

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 ...

Google's Chromium team is working on making a new experimental browser for iOS based on Blink, instead of using Webkit as mandated by App Store policies. Under the App Store Review Guidelines, web ...

“Even advanced hardware-based protections can be rendered ineffective in the face of a sophisticated attacker,” wrote Boris Larin of Kaspersky’s GReAT Team; a message all too relevant to Apple’s ...

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 ...

As noted by the not-for-profit Open Web Advocacy group on Wednesday, Japan's law goes a step further to ensure that there is a viable path for non-WebKit browsers, by preventing Apple from imposing ...