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Apple added support for non-WebKit browsers in iOS 17.4 to appease DMA rules that aim to prevent tech giants from ...
The Open Web Advocacy group claims that despite claiming to allow rival browser engines on the iPhone, Apple has made it ...
A web advocacy group says that iPhone users still get no real web browser choice more than a year after this was supposed to happen under antitrust legislation. The non-profit Open Web Advocacy (OWA) ...
New iPhone browsers without WebKit Both Google and Mozilla are now working on new iOS browsers which use the same rendering engines as their desktop browsers. For Google’s Chrome, that’s Blink : ...
WebKit credits Mozilla’s anti-tracking policy as inspiring and underpinning its new approach. Commenting on the new policy, Dr Lukasz Olejnik, ...
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 ...
A few years ago, the CMA opened an antitrust probe into Apple. The tech giant came under investigation over the market power of Safari and WebKit on devices like the best iPhones and iPads.The CMA ...
Google just announced that it is forking WebKit and launching this fork as Blink.As Google describes it, Blink is “an inclusive open source community” and “a new rendering engine based on ...
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.
In iOS 17.4 for the iPhone, browsers like Chrome and Firefox will be able to leave WebKit for their own underlying engines. But that’s only true in the EU.
WebKit is the amazing bit of code that serves as the technical foundation for many of our favorite browsers. WebKit also powers Nokia’s mobile browsers, … ...