The Yandex browser uses the WebKit engine, popular with a large number of web developers.
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And you can see the results of your changes with a live WebKit preview.
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The new Amazon Silk browser has a completely re-engineered core Webkit engine that contributes to faster page loads.
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It should also support the same strong Webkit-based browser as the T-Mobile G1.
When it comes to output, Booktype relies on CSS, JavaScript and WebKit, so everything can be done in the browser.
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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In that scenario, Mobile Safari took the crown with 60.1 percent of browser requests, leaving Android Webkit with only 23.1 percent.
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In the case of Famo.us, the innovation has been to bypass the webkit render engine by writing a new, higher-performance engine.
The software powering the device is built on the open-source Linux kernel and the open-source WebKit Web browser engine, Rathakrishnan says.
Compared to the kind of GPU workout created by action games, WebKit rendering is painfully slow and plagued by memory problems.
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In terms of browser marketshare over cellular networks, Android Webkit accounted for 37.6 percent of requests, while Mobile Safari netted 35.7 percent.
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Using an embedded Webkit runtime as a browser for hybrid apps further reduces the difference in UI and functionality across multiple devices.
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From July 2010 onwards Amazon launched its revamped DX Kindle and then the Kindle 3 with Webkit and other developer options.
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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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Word that Google had decided to fork WebKit and build its own rendering engine is still echoing through the spidery halls of the internet.
The WebKit rendering engine for mobile Safari is also used by Android and Palm devices, while Microsoft and RIM have also taken steps to improving their mobile browsing experiences.
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.
Taking advantage of Webkit's integrated voice recognition, this thing will let you input text through the mic -- perfect for posting to Facebook or tweeting sans stylus.
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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.
The bulk of mobile data requests sent to Akamai's platform saw Android's Webkit browser and Apple's Mobile Safari come in nearly neck-and-neck at 35.3 percent and 32.6 percent.
The true ramifications aren't entirely clear yet, but Opera has pledged to embrace Blink and WebKit is already talking about removing Chrome-specific code from its repositories.
That would be a rather silly notion for any company, of course, and naturally the browser is bumping up its efforts by making the jump to WebKit.
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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Newcomb hopes that these components will someday be a part of WebKit itself so that Famo.us and other frameworks can manipulate these functions directly in the browser without the workaround.
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Through the course of almost two years of exploration with Lu and his engineers, Newcomb painstakingly isolated the elements in WebKit that limit the kind of performance demonstrated in his demos.
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But Google has been pretty up front about the rationale behind the fork -- the multi-process architecture favored by Chromium-based projects is quite different than that used in other WebKit browsers.
While the company's custom WebKit browser loaded the full version of Engadget without issues and played our Flash videos just fine, it was less responsive than surfing the web on an older Chromebook, and that was just with one tab open.
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This doesn't necessarily indicate a seismic shift in the industry, but it certainly suggests that we won't be looking at a world so thoroughly dominated by the direct descendant of KHTML. At least at first, the new entrant won't actually deviate much from WebKit.
What you see in the diagram above is that the framework maintains the in and out points of the WebKit flow, but takes a detour in the middle using its own physics engine, render engine and rules framework to replace the native WebCore functions.
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