A little tidbit from the Microsoft gathering this evening. While demonstrating Outlook for Mac and the HTML rendering engine, Microsoft employees revealed that instead of using the Word HTML rendering ...

Software developers are increasingly using Web technologies to build desktop applications. This is because modern HTML rendering engines and emerging standards provide a profoundly powerful foundation ...

The open-source WebKit HTML rendering engine is rapidly gaining ground on the Linux platform where it is increasingly being adopted by conventional desktop applications for content display. Ongoing ...

HTML is the standard language used to build Web pages. It isn’t going anywhere, but some new technologies–such as HTML5 and CSS3–are already changing how you interact with Web sites. Here’s what these ...

After finding Mozilla’s Geko layout engine—Firefox’s layout engine—a little bit too buggy and difficult, Boxee is looking to switch their integrated web browser to Webkit—which runs Apple’s Safari and ...

Rather than waiting for Microsoft to implement HTML 5, Google has released a plugin for Internet Explorer 8 that injects its own WebKit rendering engine, resulting in a ten fold performance boost for ...

"Anything that renders HTML on iOS is affected," according to Haddouche, which includes any app that uses WebKit, Apple's rendering engine of choice. While this extends to other browsers than Safari, ...

It's been a long time since we heard anything about the D-Link built Boxee Box, but we're willing to say that it was worth the wait to hear good news such as this. The Box is still primed to launch ...

Last week I wrote about the benefits of open standards versus open source. I argued that open standards provide greater protection against vendor lock-in than open source alone. I was reminded of this ...

Nokia, Android, Iris Browser for Windows Mobile, and Palm Pre all share the WebKit open source renderer, but iPhone 3G S shifts it into an insanely high gear Apple shipped its iPhone 3.0 OS yesterday, ...