The software powering the device is built on the open-source Linux kernel and the open-source WebKit Web browser engine, Rathakrishnan says.
In short, Adobe has embraced the open web, contributing input and code to both WC3 web standards and WebKit open source web browser engine.
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The Kin additionally shares the Zune HD's browser engine, a hybrid of IE 7 and 8 that features pinch-to-zoom but has no support for Flash or Silverlight.
Almost at the same time that Zuckerberg was announcing Home, Google announced it would fork WebKit into Blink, an attempt by Google to produce a better browser engine.
Meanwhile Mozilla is about to see the launch of the first Firefox OS phones, and together with Samsung have announced work on a new browser engine, Servo, to take advantage of multi-core processors and next generation mobile technology.
The Yandex browser uses the WebKit engine, popular with a large number of web developers.
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Its Web browser is based on the Webkit engine, which also powers Safari and Google Chrome, i.e. iOS and Android.
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Users can open multiple pages at a time using the tabbed web browser built using the powerful Webkit engine, and easily track recently accessed content via the new History Bar.
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Eventually, we will make our web browser a launch pad for our personalized recommendation engine and cloud-based services.
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Inclusion of an advanced user interface or content discovery engine, but not a standard browser with typed search terms like a PC.
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The new Amazon Silk browser has a completely re-engineered core Webkit engine that contributes to faster page loads.
NeoPlanet: This fully functional free Web browser and "portable portal" is based on the Internet Explorer engine.
Anontune's "music engine" which runs in a user's browser then finds the songs on the web.
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The program still identifies itself (in brackets) as IE 11, but it forgoes Microsoft's older identifier ("MSIE") and simply describes itself as being a browser that renders HTML in a similar way to Firefox's Gecko layout engine.
How many IT organizations are stuck on IE 6 because a web app was coded to take specific advantage of the IE 6 rendering engine, meaning that the application will not run satisfactorily on any other web browser?
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The idea that you could render in the browser but not get bottlenecked by webkit is the equivalen of Lugg removing the shaft from the jet engine.
On November 1st an alliance including Google, the most popular web-search engine, and several other firms announced a plan to make social networks as open as Netscape's browser made the web.
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