WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple's Safari, respectively 10% and 6% use in December 2010 used web browsers . The WebKit engine provides a set of classes to display web content in windows, and implements browser features such as following links when clicked by the user, managing a back-forward list, and managing a history of pages recently visited.
WebKit was originally created as a fork of KHTML as the layout engine for Apple's Safari; it is portable to many other computing platforms. Mac OS X and Window...