KWQ is Apple's port of Qt that allows its version of the KHTML rendering engine to function in Mac OS X. KWQ and KHTML together make up the OS X WebCoreframework. Apple Computer, Inc. ... In computer programming, Qt is a cross-platform graphical widget toolkit for the development of GUI programs. ... Konqueror using KHTML to render the Wikipedia front page. ... Mac OS X is the latest version of the Mac OS, the operating system software for Macintosh computers. ... WebCore is a framework developed by Apple, and licensed under the LGPL, to provide an HTML layout engine for Mac OS X. It is one half of the WebKit framework (the other being JavaScriptCore). ... In software development, a framework is a defined support structure in which another software project can be organized and developed. ...
It is licensed under a BSD-like license, and provides enough abstraction so that if ported in its entirety, WebCore can compile and run under another operating system.