Free Layout Engines - Software Based on Webkit, Gecko, Safari, Icab, Khtml, Google Chrome, Steam, Chromium, Webos, Dashboard, Netsurf, Flock (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Software based on Webkit, Gecko, Safari, ICab, KHTML, Google Chrome, Steam, Chromium, WebOS, Dashboard, NetSurf, Flock, Epiphany, Origyn Web Browser, Uzbl, Adium, OmniWeb, Linkinus, Mail, Web Browser for S60, Colloquy, NetNewsWire, Conqueror Browser, Google Chrome Frame, SRWare Iron, RockMelt, Rekonq, Iris Browser, Steel, Shiira, Comodo Dragon, Sputnik, Arora, WebPositive, Midori, Monal, Tkhtml, Teashark, Fizzik. Excerpt: Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome," of web browsers. As of May 2011, Chrome was the third most widely used browser with 12.52% worldwide usage share of web browsers, according to Net Applications. In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code, including its V8 JavaScript engine, as an open source project entitled Chromium. This move enabled third-party developers to study the underlying source code and to help convert the browser to the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. Google also expressed hope that other browsers would adopt V8 to improve web application performance. The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the permissive BSD license, which allows portions to be incorporated into both open source and closed source software programs. Other portions of the source code are subject to a variety of open source licenses. Chromium implements the same feature set as Chrome, but lacks built-in automatic updates and Google branding, and most noticeably has a blue-colored logo in place of the multicolored Google logo. For six years, Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt was against the idea of bui...