The fine folks at Symbian-Freak’s recently posted about how Nokia is said to back out of WebKit planning to source the rendering engine of the S60 browser from somewhere else.
However, the boys have apparently acted too fast - the Nokia Browser Blog(looks like they have a blog for literally everything) now states that:
OK, (ouch) everybody out there (bonk) in the blogosphere just (oof) take a deep (splat) breath! We are not backing away from Webkit no matter what you might have read on one of those new-fangled “website” things — I’ll have to get somebody to show me one sometime soon.
As I understand it, one of our developers did some housekeeping on the Tiger branch of the webkit project, and some people thought it looked like we were backing away from the whole open-source project.
No, no, no — it’s just that we’re focusing on the newer Leopard branch, we have a lot on our plates right now (you might have heard about Nokia’s acquisition of Trolltech, for example) and there’s only so much we can do at once.
It’s not that we don’t appreciate the attention, of course, but any talk about S60 Browser backing away from Webkit isn’t true. Gotta run; just heard Elvis was spotted in Boston Commons…
Any more questions?