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Does anyone know what happened to the plan to use Webkit as the layout engine of choice for Meego devices? All netbooks and tablets running meego are running Chromium, I base this only on screenshots and videos seen. But now, at least on the handset side it seems that Fennec will be used.

Even for Symbian^3 they chose to use Webkit instead of Gecko. My understanding is that webkit is supposed to use less RAM. Don't get me wrong, I think microB is great and I'm sure if Nokia decides to integrate fennec as part of Meego they will optimise it to work as fluidly as microB. But it just makes me wonder, with plans to bring both Meego and Symbian closer together, why use a different layout engines.