Now Microsoft engineers have documented a performance tax – the performance hit that iOS users today endure because Apple requires iOS browsers, with theoretical exceptions, to use the WebKit browser ...

In anticipation of changes to App Store policy, Mozilla is developing an iOS browser that would use its Gecko rendering engine instead of WebKit. Web browsers and apps with web-browsing functionality ...

Apple pushed out security updates for a memory-corruption bug to devices running on iOS, macOS, watchOS and for Safari. Apple is rolling out fixes for a high-severity vulnerability in its WebKit ...

Apple released iOS 26.5 in June 2026, and if you own an iPhone that still receives software updates, the company wants you to ...

As I understand it, people involved with this browser have been contemplating moving to webkit, and this would be necessary if it were not to disappear into an oubliette because of what Mozilla are ...

Nokia, Android, Iris Browser for Windows Mobile, and Palm Pre all share the WebKit open source renderer, but iPhone 3G S shifts it into an insanely high gear Apple shipped its iPhone 3.0 OS yesterday, ...

Apple has released an emergency security update to protect users against two zero-day security vulnerabilities it believes have already been exploited. If nothing else, Apple’s most recent emergency ...

In my recent Macworld video blog, I discussed how to install and use WebKit, which is a version of Safari that includes the latest version of Apple’s open-source web page rendering engine.

A years-long marriage of convenience that linked Google and Apple browser technologies is ending in divorce A years-long marriage of convenience that linked Google and Apple browser technologies is ...

In my hands on with Firefox 3 report, one of the new features that I really liked was the full-page zoom. Browsers have always let you increase or decrease the size of text on a web page, but Firefox ...

iOS 15.4 has already given us a glimpse of new features to expect with the upcoming Safari update, which introduces push notifications for web apps and support for AR/VR headsets. However, WebKit code ...