Surfin’ Safari

I’ve noticed that there’s been a little bit of confusion out there about WebKit. As new people come over to check out the WebKit nightly builds, it may not be exactly clear what they’re getting. So I wanted to write a quick post to clear a few things up.

A common misconception is that WebKit is another web browser, but it’s not a browser. WebKit is a browser engine. Safari is a browser which uses that engine.

WebKit has always focused on performance, web standards compliance, security, and relatively understandable code. But, as recently pointed out by Camino developer Mike Pinkerton, this doesn’t mean much when users can’t browse to all the sites they care about.
Many have suggested over the years that WebKit should be abandoned in favor of Gecko, the [...]