Thread: New N800 firmware proof (coming along slowly)
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2007-06-19 , 10:40
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Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
Nokia is using KHTML, the engine powering KDE's Konqueror, on their phones. Apple's Webkit is KHTML with a few customizations added on.
http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/

The Nokia Web Browser is built upon S60WebKit, a port of the open source WebKit project to the S60 platform.

WebKit contains the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components that Apple uses in its Safari browser. Based on KHTML and KJS from KDE's Konqueror open source project, this software has enabled Nokia to achieve improvements in Web site usability on smartphones through the re-use of a proven desktop rendering engine that has been developed and optimized by a large open source community over many years.
Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
By the way, because the AppleTV and iPhone do not support Flash, YouTube is in the middle of reencoding all their videos in a new format they can use. (H.264) Would be nice to be able to take advantage of that.
I took a quick look at "Mobile YouTube" and while it didn't work on my UIQ Smartphone (SE W950i - media player couldn't decode the stream) I got the impression it was just another example of the Mobile Internet. On something like the Apple iPhone I'm sure punters will want the full fat version of YouTube rather than this low fat and somewhat unpalatable alternative - Mobile YouTube on iPhone is akin to accessing a WAP site!