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Nokia Develops a New Browser on Apple WebKit

Posted by Hemos on from the powering-small-devices-everywhere dept.

Althazzar writes "Nokia has built a new browser for their Symbian system based on the WebKit open source project from Apple, released last week. "Apple is pleased to assist Nokia in creating their new Series 60 browser based on the same KHTML open source technology that powers Apple's Safari"."

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  1. Hmm by Payalnik · · Score: 3, Informative

    I do suppose Opera has more experience in fitting web pages to small screens. Have they made it better?

    1. Re:Hmm by kaarlov · · Score: 4, Informative

      Nokia ships lots of phones with Opera as a web browser. See http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/

      If Nokia is serious with their own KHTML-based browser for their phones, it could be major financial blow for Opera Software.

  2. It's very spiffy by Kyro · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has been out for a while, i've been using gtk-webcore for the last two months on my Slackware box.
    you can get it from here and there's lots of other interesting tidbits of information on that site.

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  3. Gtk+ WebCore by mukund · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gtk+ WebCore seems to be made at Nokia.

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  4. Re:hmmmm. by oever · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is required! The code for the _library_ must be provided. The code linking to it may stay undisclosed.

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  5. Wrong...WebCore, not WebKit by xeno314 · · Score: 5, Informative

    How hard is it for the submitter/editor to catch this one? WebKit doesn't even appear in the press release...

  6. Re:Minimo by jp10558 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think Nokia just want's lots of choice for browser on their phones, as they also tend to include Opera on the series 60 IIRC.

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  7. Re:hmmmm. by Coryoth · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course Nokia has apparently taken webkit and built the GUI for it using GTK+. The result is GTK-WebKit, which has indeed been open sourced - you can find it here. I have no idea how much of their browser that contains, but at the least it is an HTML renderer and basic GUI, which should get you the better part of the browser whole.

    Does a GTK+/KHTML browser count as cross desktop cooperation, or a mutant bastard offspring created by third party mad scientists?

    Jedidiah.

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  8. Re:WebCore port could be more... by iluvcapra · · Score: 3, Informative

    I seem to remember Dave Hyatt setting us straight on that one. The iTunes Music Store does not use WebCore or WebKit to render its pages.

    Just why, I couldn't guess. It seems like a natural application for it.

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