What is a WebKit browser?

WebKit is the web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other apps on macOS, iOS, and Linux. Get started contributing code, or reporting bugs. Web developers can follow development, check feature status, download Safari Technology Preview to try out the latest web technologies, and report bugs.

Is Chrome a WebKit browser?

Google’s Chrome web browser was built on WebKit, an open source rendering engine developed by Apple that also underpins many other browsers, including Safari and Opera.

Is Safari a WebKit browser?

Safari is a Web browser developed by Apple and bundled with both macOS and iOS. It’s based on the open source WebKit engine.

Why do all iOS browsers use WebKit?

Chrome used only WebCore, and included its own JavaScript engine named V8 and a multiprocess system. Chrome for iOS continues to use WebKit because Apple requires that web browsers on that platform must do so.

What is the difference between WebKit and Safari?

WebKit is the standard OS X Web library. It’s used by Safari, Mail, Help and a few other things, plus some third party browsers. Safari is only the user interface part. The nightly download things give you development versions of the library, plus some magic goop to make Safari use it.

Is WebKit outdated?

That’s why I am pleased to announce that WebKit will be discontinued in favor of Trident, the engine inside Windows Internet Explorer. Like OpenDarwin before us, we will be shutting down. You may wonder how we can use Trident in Mac OS X browsers like Safari.

Is it safe to use WebKit?

After years of security improvements made by Apple, Google, and other companies and communities, WebKit became one of the most secure engines amongst web rendering engines. The security improvements mainly focused on reducing the number of critical vulnerabilities such as Use-After-Free, heap overflow, etc.

Do I still need to use WebKit?

The -webkit- prefix is needed for Safari and Chrome when using transitions, transforms, animation, gradients, calc, flexbox, and columns. For border-radius, box-shadow, border-image, and text-shadow it’s not really necessary unless you want to cover older browsers like Safari 5.0.

Should I turn off Safari experimental features?

Unless you are a web developer working with those upcoming features, or rely on some non-common web application that requires that specific experimental feature, there’s no need to toggle any of the features on or off.