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Surfin’ Safari - Webkit in the News
November 13th, 2007 by Head RobotSurfin’ Safari is a Weblog by the WebKit development team. Today they published an article about increased attention after the Android announcement.
Google’s Android announcement (see post below) has led to a new round of stories about WebKit in the blogosphere. Om Malik writes about The Amazing Rise of WebKit Mobile. Jason Delport echoes his sentiment in a piece titled The Rise of the WebKit Browser. Ajaxian refers to Another WebKit win with Android. And John Gordon rescinds his former WebKit pessimism to admit, Safari: Ok, you win.
It’s worth noting that WebKit porting efforts are heating up. In the mobile space we already have WebKit in two product lines: Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s S60 platform. In addition, the Qt port will be included in Qt 4.4, including the Qtopia mobile platform.
The Gtk+ port has been used to build mobile browsers for the Maemo and OpenMoko platforms. It is also available experimentally as a backend for GNOME’s Epiphany web browser.
Other ports and products in various stages of progress include the Origyn Web Browser, a sort of meta-port for various consumer electronics platforms, Wake3’s port to Windows CE, Adobe AIR, the Haiku operating system, wxWidgets and more.
And of course there are the many browsers and other applications using WebKit.
It’s exciting to see WebKit going more and more places, and get acknowledgement in the press for the community’s success in building a world class browser engine.
Read the rest of the original article at WebKit in the news.
Washington Post: Would you write for Android?
November 13th, 2007 by Head RobotRob Pegoraro of the Washing Post asks,
This, I promise, will be my last post on Android for a while — it will be months before I will have any production hardware on which I could try out this software. (If you use an iPhone, however, you might see some of Android’s code sooner: Android developers have already submitted their improvements to WebKit, the open-source code underneath the iPhone and Mac OS X’s Safari browser.)
In the meantime, I’d like to ask any programmers reading this who have downloaded the Android software what they think of it. Would you enjoy writing for this platform?
See what people said over at his post, Android: There’s Some Real Software Here