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 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 ...

Software developers are increasingly using Web technologies to build desktop applications. This is because modern HTML rendering engines and emerging standards provide a profoundly powerful foundation ...

Google announced on Wednesday that it will fork WebKit and transition to a new Web rendering engine for Chrome, known as Blink. Google announced on Wednesday that it will fork WebKit and transition to ...

Web engines are what take Web page content such as HTML files, and formatting instructions, for example Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and transform these into the page you see on your screen. They are ...

Opera has been making web browsers for desktop and mobile devices for years, and for most of that time the company’s been using its own Presto rendering engine. But now Opera has released its first ...

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Torch Mobile's Iris browser takes the power of the Webkit rendering engine to Windows Mobile devices. The mobile browser was released Tuesday. The browser itself is not unlike the many iPhone Safari ...

Google announced last night that it’s going to stop using WebKit—the rendering engine currently used by the likes of Safari and Chrome to display web pages—in favor of its own solution which will be ...

Google's Chrome web browser was built on WebKit, an open source rendering engine developed by Apple that also underpins many other browsers, including Safari and Opera. But on Wednesday, Google told ...

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 ...