Project Summary
WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 9,767 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 2001
ending with its most recent commit about 19 hours ago
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