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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. Wither KHTML? by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I wonder if it'd be worth the Konqueror people taking WebKit/etc and porting it back to KDE, rather than trying to keep up with WebKit in KHTML when the latter is obviously having problems because of slight architectural differences.

    This way the three groups, Nokia, KDE, and Apple, will be working on making one browser engine perfect, rather than working on two very similar systems that, really, have no major advantages over one-another.

    Symbian has little relationship with OS X/OpenStep. It strikes me if this was easy for Nokia to do, it should be architecturally reasonable to port it to a KDE environment.

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  2. How long... by Fermatprime · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long until Cringely announces the details of the upcoming Apple/Intel/Nokia merger?

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  3. Minimo by brolewis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What happened to the minimo project? I thought that Nokia was supposedly funding this project for use on its phones. Is this an apparant shift or just a bad memory on my part?

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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: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?

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