WebKit is an application framework included with Mac OS X v10.3 and later (and available as a software update for v10.2.7 and later) which is the basis of Mac OS X's Safari web browser, allowing third party developers to include much of Safari's functionality in their own products with very little work. In computer programming, an application framework is a term usually used to refer to a set of libraries or classes that are used to implement the standard structure of an application for a specific operating system. ... Mac OS X is the operating system which is included with all shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets. ... A screenshot of Mac OS X v10. ... Mac OS X version 10. ... Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Computer, Inc. ...

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WebKit includes two lower-level frameworks: WebCore, an HTML parser and renderer based on KHTML, and JavaScriptCore, a JavaScript engine based on KJS. 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). ... A piece of HTML code with syntax highlighting In computing, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. ... Konqueror using KHTML to render the Wikipedia front page. ... JavaScriptCore is a framework developed by Apple that provides a JavaScript engine for Mac OS X. It, along with WebCore, make up WebKit. ... JavaScript is an object-based scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ... KJS is KDEs JavaScript engine that was originally developed for the KDE projects Konqueror web browser by Harri Porten in 2000. ...

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Applications using WebKit

• Adium, a multi-protocol instant messenger, uses WebKit to display messages.
• BBEdit, a text/HTML editor, uses WebKit to preview web pages.
• Colloquy, an IRC and SILC chat client, uses WebKit to display chat traffic.
• Dashboard, a mini desktop applications environment for Mac OS X.
• Growl, a global notifications system, uses WebKit for some of its displays.
• NetNewsWire, an RSS aggregator, uses WebKit to render news feeds and to browse the web.
• NewsFire, an RSS aggregator, uses WebKit to handle a bulk of UI rendering.
• Safari, the default web browser on Mac OS X.
• Shiira, a multilingual open source web browser (the main developer happens to be Japanese).
• SubEthaEdit, a collaborative text editor, uses WebKit to preview web pages.
• Xcode, Apple's Integrated Development Environment, uses WebKit to display documentation.

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External links

• The WebKit Open Source Project — Official site
• Introduction to Web Kit Objective-C Programming Guide at developer.apple.com
• GNUstep WebKit — GNUstep port of WebKit
• Nightly builds of WebKit
• NightShift — Application to automatically download nightly builds of WebKit
• S60 OSS Browser — Information about Web Browser for S60 open source software.
• Simple DirectTV scheduler