WebKit
Sign in to saveWebKit 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.
Key facts
- Software.name
- WebKit
- Software.logo
- Webkit_logo_(2025).svg
- Software.logo size
- 100px
- Software.caption
- logo used since 2015
- Software.author
- Apple Inc.
- Software.developer
- Apple Inc., Adobe Systems, Sony, KDE, Igalia, and others
- Software.latest preview version
- Nightly
- Software.programming language
- C++
- Software.operating system
- macOS, iOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Software.genre
- Browser engine
- Software.license
- LGPL (rendering engine, JavaScript engine), BSD 2-Clause (additional contributions from Apple)
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Split development
- Open-sourcing
- Further development
- WebKit2
- Use
- Installed base
- <span class="anchor" id="WebKitGTK"></span>Ports
- Web Platform for Embedded
- Forking by Google
- Components
- WebCore
- JavaScriptCore
- See also
- References
- External links
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 started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE, and has since been further developed by KDE contributors, Apple, Google, Nokia, Bitstream, BlackBerry, Sony, Igalia, and others. WebKit supports macOS, Windows, Linux, and various other Unix-like operating systems. On April 3, 2013, Google announced that it had forked WebCore, a component of WebKit, to be used in future versions of Google Chrome under the name Blink. Since version 15 in May 2013, Opera web browser has dropped its own Presto layout engine in favor of WebKit as implemented by Google in the Chromium project.