Nokia releases S60 WebKit sources
Posted by rgeisler on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 at 8:24 amI am at the moment sitting at the World Wide Web Conference 2006 in Edinburgh where Nokia announced a few mintues ago to open source its S60 WebKit sources. We are releasing our code under the terms of the open source BSD License, and our source code will be made available through the WebKit Open Source Project site. The code that we are contributing includes many mobility components that are needed for a basic browser, including items such as a memory manager, mobile usability improvements and a reference user interface. In addition we have prepared a number of testing tools and documentation to get you as a developer quickly started, go check it out. As we are moving forward we will be making improvements to tools and release further features.
It has been exciting and at times challenging one and a half years for us to develop our new mobile Web browser for the S60 software platform based on Apple’s and KDE’s fantastic Safari and Konqueror browser code. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank the KDE community, WebKit community and the Apple Safari team for having built what is today WebCore and JavaScriptCore, a large part of your code is today already running in our Nokia mobile phones. We at Nokia are looking forward to working together with many of you from the community and partner companies in the near future to further develop the S60 WebKit.
The Web goes mobile!
May 24th, 2006 at 8:56 am
Does Apple/Safari have a presence at the conference? I’d love to chat to you guys if you were here in Edinburgh.
May 24th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Wow. I am very pleased and very impressed. I have always found Nokia to be at the front of mobile technology. They have also shown that they are the leader in providing open source technologies to their cellular phones, and this is causing others, such as Motorola, to follow.
I very much look forward to porting the S60 WebKit to the PalmOS platform this summer.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:40 am
Will this software be used on S80 as well, or is that staying with Opera?
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:50 am
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