Webkit
Webkit is the mobile web.
What is Webkit?
Webkit is an open-source layout engine that is used as the base for most of the major desktop and mobile browsers. It's goal is to be standards-compliant, highly performant, and secure. Webkit is the engine behind Safari, Chrome (Chromium), Amazon's Silk browser (for the Kindle Fire), Android browser, iOS Safari, Steam's in-game browser, Blackberry browser (6+), and even part of Adobe's CS5 interface.
Feature-wise it is always ahead of its competitors, implementing many of the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications early and plays an active role in the web standards community. Performance? Chrome has it by a long shot. Thanks to Webkit and Google’s v8 javascript engine the Chrome browser constantly comes out ahead: Browser Performance
Who is using Webkit?
Everyone. Not only is a webkit-based browser the default on the Mac OS, but Chrome has taken between 10% - 25% of the browser market (depending on where you get your stats).
More importantly, Webkit IS the mobile web. Not only are the two leading mobile platforms (Android and iOS) using webkit based browsers, but even RIM and WebOS have switched to Webkit in recent devices.
Out of the box
- Open source project with a large community
- General-purpose webviews for app building
- Highest level of standards compliance
- By not allowing performance regressions they maintain an always increasingly faster code-base
- Chrome and Safari both include useful developer tools (Chrome Developer tools and Web Inspector)
How does Metal Toad Media use Webkit?
Metal Toad Media uses Webkit as its primary development, testing, and deployment tool for mobile and desktop webapps.