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 ...

Now that Google is going its own way and developing its rendering engine independently of the WebKit project, both sides of the split are starting the work of removing all the things they don’t ...

Both Chrome and Safari will move faster when uncoupled from each other, Google argues. But it's not just about technology: Social issues also factored into the schism. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

While some people may have been surprised that Google has finally made Blink, its own fork of the popular WebKit Web browser engine, in Web developer circles this move came as no surprise. As Adam ...

Kagi, best known for its telemetry-free search engine, has released version 1.0 of Orion, its privacy-focused browser for Mac. After a long beta period, the WebKit-based browser is aimed at users who ...

Apple has begun sending lock-screen notifications to a subset of iPhone users, alerting them that their devices face active ...

Google announced today that it is forking the WebKit rendering engine on which its Chrome browser is based. The company is naming its new engine “Blink.” The WebKit project was started by Apple in ...

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 WebKit” ...