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WebKit is a browser engine developed primarily by Apple Inc. and used in Safari, iOS, and various other platforms. It originated as a fork of KHTML and has been further developed by multiple contributors, including Google and Sony. WebKit is open source, supporting multiple operating systems and featuring a JavaScript engine called JavascriptCore.

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WebKit is a browser engine developed primarily by Apple Inc. and used in Safari, iOS, and various other platforms. It originated as a fork of KHTML and has been further developed by multiple contributors, including Google and Sony. WebKit is open source, supporting multiple operating systems and featuring a JavaScript engine called JavascriptCore.

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WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in


Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web
browsers on iOS and iPadOS. WebKit is also used
by the PlayStation consoles starting with the PS3,
the Tizen mobile operating systems, the Amazon
Kindle e-book reader, Nintendo consoles starting
with the 3DS Internet Browser, GNOME Web, and
the discontinued BlackBerry Browser.

WebKit

Original author(s) Apple Inc.[1][2]

Developer(s) Apple Inc., Adobe


Systems, Sony, KDE,
Igalia, and others

Initial release November 4, 1998; 26


years ago (KHTML
released)
June 7, 2005; 19 years
ago (WebKit sourced)

Preview release Nightly[3]

Repository github.com/WebKit
/WebKit

Written in C++[4]

Operating system macOS, iOS, Linux,[5]


Microsoft Windows[6][7]

Type Browser engine

License LGPLv2.1 (rendering


engine, JavaScript
engine), BSD 2-Clause
(additional contributions
from Apple)[8]

Website webkit.org

WebKit started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS


libraries from KDE,[1][9] and has since been
further developed by KDE contributors, Apple,
Google, Nokia,[9] Bitstream, BlackBerry, Sony,
Igalia, and others.[10] WebKit supports macOS,
Windows, Linux, and various other Unix-like
operating systems.[11] On April 3, 2013, Google
announced that it had forked WebCore, a
component of WebKit, to be used in future
versions of Google Chrome and the Opera web
browser, under the name Blink.[12][13]

Its JavaScript engine, JavascriptCore, also


powers the Bun server-side JS runtime,[14] as
opposed to V8 used by Node.js, Deno, and Blink.
WebKit's C++ application programming interface
(API) provides a set of classes to display Web
content in windows, and implements browser
features such as following links when clicked by
the user, managing a back-forward list, and
managing a history of pages recently visited.

WebKit is open source and available under the


BSD 2-Clause license[15][8] with the exception of
the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components,
which are available under the GNU Lesser General
Public License. As of March 7, 2013, WebKit is a
trademark of Apple, registered with the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office.[16]

Origins

Use

Components

See also

References

External links

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