Welcome to the unofficial WebKit wiki

where webkit geeks redefine what it means to be a rendering engine

Think about it this way: if you had a super-fly gaming engine that was wicked easy to set up, to pipe in data and attract gamers, wouldn't you want to build your own game? Now you can. Except... it's in the form of the core of Apple's Safari web browser.

You can now get and build the WebKit source for OS X, Windows, Linux, and Symbian

Contact me to get the password.

Goals

• to build WebKitTemplate for quick deployment of WebKit apps
• to improve ExistingProjects
• to come up with new ideas and practices that leverage the WebKit platform

Team players

• ChrisMessina
• JoshPeek
• ChipCuccio
• DavidUlevitch
• MattMower
• CotyRosenblath
• AndrewTurner
• JoelDudley
• LeslieW
• ...add yourself

Resources

• The WebKit Open Source Project
• Tixe - Cocoa Bindings for WebKit
• Brent Simmons presentation on Hybrid Apps (you'll need VoodooPad to open this)
• Code 74 - 'a simple lightweight web browser based around WebKit and written in RubyCocoa on Mac OS X'
• S60WebKit for mobile phones

Best practices

• Building Subversion (SVN) on Mac OS X
• rails-application-installer - a generic "installer" for Rails applications. Allows for easy installation and removal of the app and required gems

Blog posts

• 30B App

Related projects

• Bubbles for Windows
• In Mozilla-land, Moon.mozpad.org
• Swift - Webkit on the PC (defunct)
• Web Applications 1.0 - WhatWG specification that introduces features to HTML and the DOM that ease the authoring of Web-based applications.
• ProjectUnity - WebKit Ported to Qt 4
• Zotero -- firefox-based reference manager that uses the local SQL store in firefox 2 as a data store
• SyncML
• Funambol -- push email, PIM synchronization, and device management for mobile devices

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