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 ...

A major under-the-hood change might be coming to Chrome for iPhone. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac Google is tinkering with a version of its Chrome web browser for iPhone that does not use the WebKit ...

The Norwegian software company plans to throw its weight behind the browser engine used by Google and Apple this year instead of developing its own. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

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 ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. It's been roughly two months since Opera announced it was dropping its own Presto web rendering ...

WebKit – an Apple-developed, open-sourced rendering platform based on KHTML – is picking up steam on desktop. On laptop and desktop computers, WebKit-powered browsers are closing in on Mozilla’s ...

Earlier this week, we looked at a collaborative project by Nokia and Mozilla which aims to port Firefox to the Qt development toolkit. Nokia's decision to fund Firefox development despite already ...

Mozilla's high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior ...

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 ...