Hi,
I am at the moment sitting at the World Wide Web Conference
2006 in
Edinburgh where a few minutes ago Nokia announced to open
source its S60
WebKit sources. We will release our code under the terms of
the open
source BSD License, and our source code will be made
available through
the WebKit Open Source Project site. The code that we are
contributing
includes many mobility components that are needed for a
basic browser,
including items such as a memory manager, mobile usability
improvements
and a reference user interface. In addition we have prepared
a number of
testing tools and documentation to get you as a developer
quickly
started. More information can be found from our open source
site at
http://webkit.opendarw
in.org/. As we are moving forward we will be
making improvements to tools and release further features.
It has been exciting and at times challenging one and a half
years for
us to develop our new mobile Web browser for the S60
software platform
based on Apple's and KDE's fantastic Safari and Konqueror
browser code.
In 2Q Nokia started shipping our first S60 3rd edition
mobile phones
with the new browser, and I am pleased to mention that our
customers
have been highly pleased with the good performance,
compliance and
feature set of our new mobile browser. I wanted to take the
opportunity
to thank the KDE community and the Apple Safari team for
having built
what is today WebCore and JavaScriptCore, a large part of
your code is
now running in our Nokia mobile phones.
After having focused for the past months mostly on our first
browser
software release, we at Nokia felt that it is time to start
looking
ahead. With the decision of open sourcing our S60 WebKit
code we hope to
start a fruitful collaboration with the open source
community and
partner companies to further develop the Web Browser for S60
and
proliferate the engine to other mobile software platforms.
We believe
that working in the open source will create an innovative
ecosystem for
mobile browser development that will benefit the mobile
industry and
browser industry at large. We at Nokia are excited to take
this step,
and we are looking forward to working together with many of
you from the
community and partner companies in the near future. If you
would like to
contact us, please feel free to send us email either
directly, via the
WebKit mailing list or meet us on the WebKit IRC channel.
Best regards,
Your Web Browser for S60 team at Nokia,
Roland Geisler
Head of Marketing & Strategy, S60 Browser
Nokia
PS: Please forward this email to any contributor whom I may
have missed.
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The KHTML
they use is a port of WebKit to S60.
There are ongoing efforts to port WebKit to many other
platforms as well.
--
George Staikos
KDE Developer