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Tag: WebKit
Apple makes significant browser-related changes to iOS in EU
Apple announced a raft of iOS in the EUyesterday, as it prepares for the March 7th enforcement of the bloc’s Digital Markets Act…
Google and Mozilla are working on non-WebKit iOS browsers
Google and Mozilla’s’s web browsers on Apple’s iOS and iPadOS App Stores, but these versions use Safari’s WebKit rendering engine…
Facebook tries ads to convince users to allow themselves to be tracked
Facebook on Thursday launched an ad campaign that attempts to convince users to allow themselves to be tracked so that Facebook can serve…
Google Stadia is now available on Apple’s iPhone and iPad
A few weeks after announcing that support was on the way, Google’s cloud gaming Stadia service now supports the iPhone and iPad …
Apple slams Facebook for user-tracking and ad-targeting practices
Apple on Thursday slammed Facebook and others (read “Google”) for their user-tracking and ad-targeting practices in response to…
Google’s game-streaming service Stadia coming to Apple’s iOS soon
Google said on Thursday that Stadia, its game-streaming service, will be available for iOS, at least in beta form, in the coming weeks…
Apple engineers propose standard format for SMS one-time passcodes
Apple engineers on Thursday proposed to standardize the format of the SMS messages containing one-time passcodes (OTP) that users receive during…
Apple WebKit bugs on iOS and macOS allowed 1 billion rogue popup ads on websites
More than a billion scam popup ads were served thanks to bugs in Apple’s WebKit and the open-source Blink frameworks…
iPhone users warned to update as 1.1 billion eGobbler malvertising attack is confirmed
eGobbler, the prolific threat actor behind malvertising campaigns with a history of compromising adverts in their hundreds of millions in a matter of hours…
Apple confirms removal of Mac’s Dashboard
Apple has removed Dashboard support from WebKit, not long after it was discovered that the feature has been completely dropped…
Experimental Safari feature points to a future with tracker-free ads
Apple thinks it has come up with a way for advertisers to track how well their ads…
Apple to launch new privacy feature for ad tracking in browser
Users will not be uniquely identified across websites they visit in order to track ad clicks…
Is Google purposefully breaking Microsoft, Apple browsers on its websites?
In what can only be described as painfully ironic, Microsoft engineers are seemingly convinced…
WWDC 2018: When Apple Watch became a platform
Apple’s watchOS 5 plays to the strengths of Apple Watch and opens up some new and interesting ways…
WWDC 2018 Aftermath: The year of FINALLY!
Finally! That’s what I found myself almost yelling out — over and over again during WWDC 2018…
Apple releases iOS and macOS updates with a mitigation for Spectre CPU flaw
Apple just released iOS 11.2.2 with some Safari and WebKit improvements…
Apple positions Metal as part of new 3D graphics standard for Web
Apple’s WebKit team on Tuesday proposed a new Community Group at the World Wide Web Consortium…
Three-character message prank crashes pre-iOS 10.2 Apple iPhones with a single text
A three character-long text message can temporarily disable iPhones, a hacker has shown…
Apple Google’s WebP for accelerated image loads in Safari
Apple has begun trial runs with a Google graphics technology in a significant endorsement…
Apple ditches Adobe Flash in Safari on MacOS Sierra
In Safari 10, set to ship with macOS Sierra, Apple plans to disable common plug-ins…
5 reasons Apple’s stealthy WebRTC adoption benefits everybody
Apple has quietly begun developing support for the Google-backed WebRTC standard inside Safari’s WebKit spec…
Apple quietly slips WebRTC audio, video into Safari’s WebKit spec
WebKit, the browser engine for Safari, is on track to support protocols that enable native video and audio…
‘Huge’ number of Mac apps vulnerable to hijacking, and a fix is elusive
Camtasia, uTorrent, and a large number of other Mac apps are susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks…
Apple has its own JavaScript accelerator in the works called ‘FTLJIT’
It’s being made available in the OS X port of WebKit by default…
Random string of Arabic characters can crash nearly any Mac, iPhone or iPad
A strange but simple bug in an essential part of Apple’s desktop and mobile OSes…
Does WebKit face a troubled future now that Google has gone on the Blink?
Now that Google is going its own way and developing its rendering engine…
Google forks WebKit with new open source rendering engine ‘Blink’
WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001…
Opera announces transition to WebKit, Chromium
Opera Software today announced hitting a total of 300 million monthly users…
Happy 10th birthday Safari! Thanks for changing everything
Ten years ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs surprised the Internet world by unveiling Safari…
How Apple’s Safari browser started life as ‘Alexander’ and hid itself from the world
For much of the time we spent developing Safari…
Apple’s Particle purchase hints at iPad, iPhone post-PC plans
“With all eyes on Apple’s October 23 iPad mini and Mac announcements, it would be easy to spend too little time pondering the company’s acquisition of HTML5 firm, Particle. I think it illustrates a few interesting new elements to Apple’s future plans for mobile devices, apps, software and services,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “Particle […]
Apple buys ‘Particle’ HTML5 Web and Web app design firm backed by Justin Timberlake
Particle was founded in early 2008 and has some celebrity financial backing…
Samsung preps mobile browser based on Apple’s WebKit
Samsung Electronics has begun developing a WebKit-based mobile browser…
Guess who is WebKit’s new best friend
From red-hot Android to astonishing iOS to beleaguered Symbian and Blackberry, they have all turned to WebKit…
Apple’s WebKit trademark filing challenged in Canada by Research in Motion
Research in Motion has filed an official opposing action against Apple’s trademark…
Study: Android is least open of ‘open source’ mobile platforms
Market research firm VisionMobile has published a report that evaluates the openness…
Google’s ‘Swiffy’ converts .SWF Flash files into HTML5 for Apple iOS devices
Swiffy supports most of the Flash 5 ActionScript specification…
Apple iPad 2 beats Android 3.0 Honeycomb Xoom, Galaxy Tab in HTML5 capability
Apple offers ‘a top rate, no compromises HTML5 browser’ while Android is simply “not ready for primetime, even for HTML4…