Audience
Anyone requiring a solution to render web content across various platforms and applications
About WebKit
WebKit is a fast, open source web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other applications on macOS, iOS, and Linux. It serves as the foundation for rendering web content and executing JavaScript in these applications. Developers can contribute to the project by reporting bugs or submitting code. Web developers can follow WebKit's development, check feature status, and download Safari Technology Preview to experiment with the latest web technologies. The project emphasizes real-world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability, performance, battery life, security, privacy, portability, usability, and ease of code modification. WebKit is open source and available under the BSD 2-Clause license, with the exception of the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components, which are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
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Free
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