WebKit
What is WebKit?
WebKit is an open source web browser core runtime created by Apple based on KDE's KHTML and KJS.
Derived from KDE's codebase, it is written in C++ and was made generic without Qt/KDE dependencies. It is portable given that base classes are extended, allowing replacement parts to be introduced, such as Google's JavaScript virtual machine called V8. Every port should define, at least, a network and graphics backend. There are common implementations to be used like POSIX file access and threading, Freetype font rendering and so on.
After its release in 2002 it got broad adoption by communities and companies. Its extensive list of supporter companies includes big names like Google, Nokia, RIM. Various community-based projects adopted it as their rendering system such as Gtk, Qt, Haiku, WxWidgets and of course EFL with our EWebKit.
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