As I understand it, people involved with this browser have been contemplating moving to webkit, and this would be necessary if it were not to disappear into an oubliette because of what Mozilla are ...

In anticipation of changes to App Store policy, Mozilla is developing an iOS browser that would use its Gecko rendering engine instead of WebKit. Web browsers and apps with web-browsing functionality ...

Upcoming regulations in the European Union could force Apple to drop its long-standing rule that all iPhone and iPad browsers use the same WebKit engine as Safari. Mozilla chair and CEO Mitchell Baker ...

Google’s decision to abandon open-source web browser engine WebKit for its own mobile rendering engine, Blink, is surprising, expected, tragic, and a godsend — all at once. And it’s also happening ...

Inside every browser is the core of the ideal client-side application environment, incorporating everything that I’d estimate half of commercial applications need. There’s the best dynamic, ...

In general, linking and running, much as it is the name of your blog, isn't welcome here. If you would like to offer up some version of your argument, with a link to the longer post for those who want ...

To begin with, von Tetzchner supports European demands that “gatekeepers” such as Apple and Google open their ecosystems to rivals: “The Digital Markets Act is a big deal. For years, the gatekeepers, ...

Whenever the butterflies at Apple WebKit flap their wings, “Ad Tech Island” feels the aftershocks. Last week, a small change to Apple’s on-device tech to patrol third-party data collectors sent some ...

Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and other popular web browsers like Opera and DuckDuckGo are all currently forced to use WebKit on iOS, resulting in limited differentiation with Safari. Apple has previously ...

Apple has released security updates to backport patches released last month, addressing an actively exploited zero-day bug for older iPhones and iPads. The vulnerability (CVE-2023-23529) is a WebKit ...

We’re just two days away from Vision Pro arriving to the first customers and ahead of the launch, Apple has issued a security patch. To protect against a WebKit flaw that’s been actively exploited, ...

Apple has patched an actively exploited zero-day bug in its WebKit browser engine for Safari. The bug, assigned as CVE-2024-23222, stems from a type confusion error, which basically is what happens ...