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Nokia's N9 handset launched

Posted Jun 23, 2011 14:29 UTC (Thu) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855)
In reply to: Nokia's N9 handset launched by mvaar
Parent article: Nokia's N9 handset launched

no, they don't. webos uses webkit and html5+javascript for the whole UX.


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Nokia's N9 handset launched

Posted Jun 23, 2011 14:48 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

There is Qt on the devices by default, though.

Nokia's N9 handset launched

Posted Jun 23, 2011 15:46 UTC (Thu) by mvaar (guest, #75742) [Link]

what does webkit use for rendering ? In other words, what is the rendering API, one level above the graphical primitives such as openGL or X or whatever ?

It's switchable...

Posted Jun 25, 2011 6:54 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Well, WebKit embedded in recent versions of Qt obviously uses Qt. Chrome for Linux uses Cairo (and may be GTK but AFAIK they try to minimize GTK use). I don't know what webOS is using.

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