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WebKit is an open source Web content engine for browsers and other
applications.
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14 We value real-world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability,
performance, security, portability, usability, and relative ease of
understanding and modifying the code (hackability).
14We value real-world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability,
performance, battery life, security, privacy, portability, usability, and
relative ease of understanding and modifying the code (hackability).
1515Project Goals
1616Web Content Engine
17 The project’s primary focus is content deployed on the World Wide Web,
using standards-based technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the DOM.
However, we also want to make it possible to embed WebKit in other
applications, and to use it as a general-purpose display and interaction
engine.
17The project’s primary focus is content deployed on the World Wide Web,
using standards-based technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and DOM.
However, we also want to make it possible to embed WebKit in other
applications, and to use it as a general-purpose display and interaction
engine.
1818Open Source
1919WebKit should remain freely usable for both open source and proprietary
applications. To that end, we use BSD-style and LGPL licenses. Specifically, we
aim for licensing compatible with LGPL 2.1+. We do not currently plan to move
to LGPL 3. In addition, we strive to create a courteous, welcoming environment
that feels approachable to newcomers. WebKit maintains a public IRC chat room
and a public mailing list where the ideas of contributors both new and old are
heard and discussed with equal weight.
2020Compatibility
2424Stability
2525The main WebKit code base should always maintain a high degree of
stability. This means that crashes, hangs and regressions should be dealt with
promptly, rather than letting them pile up.
2626Performance
27 Maintaining and improving speed and memory use is an important goal. We
never consider performance “good enough”, but strive to constantly improve. As
web content becomes richer and more complex, and as web browsers run on more
limited devices, performance gains continue to have value even if normal
browsing seems fast enough.
27Maintaining and improving speed and memory use is an important goal. We
never consider performance “good enough”, but strive to constantly improve. As
web content becomes richer and more complex, and as web browsers run on more
limited devices, performance gains continue to have value even if normal
browsing seems fast enough. We consider speed, memory use, responsiveness and
frame rate to be important aspects of performance.
28Battery Life
29In addition to traditional performance metrics, we aim to minimize power
consumption to maximize browsing battery life for portable devices.
2830Security
2931Protecting users from security violations is critical. We fix security
issues promptly to protect users and maintain their trust.
32Privacy
33We believe privacy is a human right. WebKit code won't track the user or
otherwise violate their privacy. And we will strive to prevent websites and
other parties from doing so.
3034Portability
3135The WebKit project seeks to address a variety of needs. We want to make
it reasonable to port WebKit to a variety of desktop, mobile, embedded and
other platforms. We will provide the infrastructure to do this with tight
platform integration, reusing native platform services where appropriate and
providing friendly embedding APIs.
3236Usability___
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