Forking their own model will alleviate future issues in both
the WebKit code and Chrome itself.
WebKit code underlies the browsers in many of today's smartphones, including Apple's iPhone, Palm's Pre and Google's Android phones.
Barring that, funding a developer to finish
the WebKit code might be another alternative.
Not exact matches
Though I have not tested it rigorously, the dividing line seems to be between EPUB apps, which are generally built on the open - source
code of
Webkit, and EPUB readers, which are generally built on Adobe software.
Update: On the heels of the latest update 4.2, Apple has pushed through an update to 4.2.1 which is mainly security updates that revolve around the
Webkit and preventing hackers from executing malicious
code.
Like most mobile browsers, the Playbook browser is based on
Webkit, which is a great browser base
code.
At the heart of mobile Safari, the Android browser, and RIM's browser for the PlayBook is some
code known as
WebKit.
According to the hacker, «all» he had to do was slightly tweak his existing jailbreakMe iOS
Webkit exploit (hence the mention of iOS and pangu in the screenshot) and remove iOS specific
code from it.
WebKit's vulnerabilities included a malicious website able to open pop - ups and some with arbitrary
code executions, with nine of the 11 reported by Google's Project Zero that looks for zero - day vulnerabilities.
Sixteen of the
WebKit issues are identified as memory corruption issues that could lead to arbitrary
code execution.
With Chrome using the Blink engine, all Chrome - specific
code — javascript hooks, platform
code, build system tools and the like — has been removed from
WebKit.
Executing arbitrary Javascript
code is one thing, but I found that Skype also improperly defines the URI scheme used by the built - in
webkit browser for Skype.