WebKit

Users Beware: Apple Announces Security Flaw Affecting iPhones, iPads, and Macs

Users are encouraged to update their devices—even if they have an iPod touch.

Apple Pay May Finally Work With Mobile Browsers That Aren’t Safari

The option to pay with it pops up in third-party browsers on the iOS 16 beta.

Google Is Forking WebKit to Create a New Rendering Engine For Chrome and Opera

Google announced last night that it’s going to stop using WebKit—the rendering engine currently used by the likes of Safari and Chrome to display web pages—in favor of its own solution which will be called Blink. That is, admittedly, super-nerdy news, but it’s important. Google claims that WebKit has been slowing down the way it…

Opera has announced that it will start using WebKit to render pages—just Chrome and Safari. About time!

Google Maps Has Never Been Accessible On Internet Explorer Mobile Now Blocked on Windows Phone (Updated)

Earlier today rumors started floating around that Google is somehow now blocking Windows Phone users from accessing Google Maps through Internet Explorer. Well, it turns out that that was totally false and untrue. As it turns out, the mobile browser version of Google Maps was built for Webkit-based browsers, and the mobile version of Internet…

You’ll Never Believe This Was Made With Just WebKit

Wanna know who’s got the most impressive web visuals we’ve seen in a while? It’s a little site called Acko.net, written by Steven Wittens. Just head over there and slowly scroll down. You’re looking into the web future. Here’s how they did it. [Acko.net via Joel Johnson]

Android 2.2 Dusts iOS4 In JavaScript Performance

Testing stock browsers found within Android 2.2 (Nexus One) and iOS4 (iPhone 4), ars technica discovered that there’s no comparison in JavaScript performance. But DoodleJump plays a bit smoother on my iPhone, which is 99% of what really matters. [arstechnica] https://gizmodo.com/what-is-froyo-5543853

BlackBerry Bold 9800 Leaked Pics Show WebKit Browser

Leaked photos of the Bold 9800 aren’t anything new, but photos showing OS 6.0’s WebKit browser? Yes, please. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-slider-phone-video-leaked-5534987 TheCellularGuru managed to snag some photos from a source, with the photo above showing the new browser that BlackBerry OS 6.0 will include. Previous leaks have shown that the browser will support multitouch and tabs. Squinting…

BlackBerry OS 6.0 Screenshots and Details

If you’re a BlackBerry fan, there is probably not a single thing you have been looking forward to more than what we have right here – screenshots and full details of RIM’s upcoming operating system, OS 6.0. One of our AT&T sources has not only showed us the brand new OS, but has also given…

How WebKit2 Will Fix Your Slow, Crashy Browsers

Ever used Safari? Chrome? An iPhone? Android? Then you’ve used WebKit, the rendering engine that powers most of the best browsers in the world. Up next: WebKit2 with a new “split process model.” it’s going to be awesome. Subtly! The banner feature for WebKit2 is the new split process model: Part of WebKit operates in…

How the iPhone Could End Up In Second Place

Here are the US mobile web traffic figures for iPhone OS and Android, getting ready to collide: Android, on its way up; iPhone, on its way down. So when will Android overtake the iPhone? Try next month. AdMob’s Mobile Metrics Report sees a predictable continuation of what we’d seen before from the ad tracking firm—specifically,…

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Tomorrowland Edition

In today’s Remainders: tomorrow’s news! Cisco’s ushering in the next generation of internet with the CRS-3; Kempler & Strauss’s futuristic PhoneWatch gets reviewed; geolocated Tweets; a WebKit-borrowing Firefox; an HTML 5 drawing app; Samsung’s point and shoot prices, and more! Hang Ups Back in October we previewed the Kempler & Strauss PhoneWatch—the smallest of its…

The New WebKit BlackBerry Browser: Yes, It’s Actually Good

This is swanky. RIM’s showing off BlackBerry’s new WebKit-based browser, and yes, it’s fast! JavaScript actually loads! It even scored a perfect 100 in the Acid3 rendering test. Still months away, but we’ll take it. [BlackBerryRocks] https://gizmodo.com/rim-gobbles-up-torch-mobile-translation-blackberrys-g-5344237

Giz Explains: Why HTML5 Isn’t Going to Save the Internet

The beardier parts of the web-o-sphere have been abuzz about HTML5, the next version of the language that powers our internet. Will it revolutionize web apps? Will it kill Flash video? Will it fix our gimpy iPads? Yes… and no. The tech press has transformed HTML5 from a quiet inevitability to an unlikely savior: When…

Watch As This AT-AT Walker Stomps All Over Flash

This is a still image of an AT-AT walker. But! If you go here using any WebKit browser (Safari, Chrome), it dances to life. Like a Flash animation, except it’s not. It’s pure CSS3. Point taken. [Anthony Calzadilla via DF] https://gizmodo.com/war-of-words-between-apple-and-adobe-heats-up-5461306

Why the Next BlackBerry Browser Won’t Be So Terrible

It’s loooong past time for RIM to shitcan BlackBerrys’ stock browser. Today, a new patent for server-optimized browsing, combined with their obvious interest in WebKit, means they might be about to do just that. The patent comes by way of the WSJ, and claims: A system for enhancing network-browsing speed by setting a proxy server…

Dolphin Browser Gives Droid the Multitouch It Should’ve Had From the Start

As far as phones go, the Droid is an olympian. A supermodel. A movie star. But without multitouch, it’s a movie star with rickets, and awkward inflection. That is: mildly disappointing! That’s where the Dolphin browser comes in. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-review-5396168 At first glance the browser is a bit of a mess: its Android Market listing is…

RIM Is Definitely Developing a WebKit (Read: Decent) Browser

It wasn’t a huge leap to take RIM’s purchase of Torch Mobile, a software company known exclusively for making a WebKit mobile browser, as a sign that the company was considering taking the dive. Today, though, we can be sure. https://gizmodo.com/rim-gobbles-up-torch-mobile-translation-blackberrys-g-5344237 BlackBerry just put out a call for WebKit developers, for a very specific reason:…

All WebKit Browsers Are Not Created Equal

It’s behind some of the best desktop browsers, and all of the great mobile ones. But just because a company says they’re using WebKit, the open source website rendering engine, doesn’t guarantee an awesome browser. https://gizmodo.com/every-mobile-browser-should-give-up-and-just-go-webkit-5271098 Peter-Paul Koch at Quirksmode devised a battery of rendering tests to see how different WebKit browsers measure up, and…

Lighthouse SQ7: A Tablet that Shouts at Twitter

I’m still holding out for the internet-surfing CrunchPad, but the $250 Lighthouse SQ7 is an interesting take on a tablet just for the couch (especially if you’re super in to social networking). https://gizmodo.com/crunchpad-web-tablet-landing-as-soon-as-possible-for-5307487 The 7-inch (800×480) tablet runs Ubuntu and a browser based upon WebKit. The light footprint software allows its 667MHz ARM processor with…