Apple and Google still represent the bulk of reviewed commits contributing to the ongoing development of WebKit, the open source web browser engine that powers Safari and Chrome, among others. Google ...

If you were secretly hoping that all web browsers would one day give up and adopt the WebKit rendering engine, we've got some bad news for you – Google just crushed those dreams. Google has announced ...

Earlier this month Opera announced that it would be moving from Presto to WebKit as the engine at the core of the browser. The move to Opera WebKit will allow the development team to concentrate more ...

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 ...

'text-wrap' is a shorthand CSS property that controls how text wraps within an element. Among these, 'text-wrap: pretty' is an algorithm that allows user agents to prioritize good layout over speed, i ...

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In the wake of Google's release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser, some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Despite the ...

Apple’s WebKit has taken a higher profile in Web Standards terms, following the appointment of the company’s WebKit manager, Maciej Stachowiak, to the World Wide Web Consortium’s HTML Working Group.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a developers’ conference in Australia yesterday he thinks the idea of using Webkit as the rendering engine for Internet Explorer is “interesting” and that his company ...

Developers Alp Toker and George Wright of Collabora are working on a WebKit-based backend for Nokia’s modular Maemo Web Browser that will leverage Nokia’s Engine Abstraction Layer and the WebKit GTK ...