WebKit – The Web Browser Engine

Today, I have been trying to work with CDT – C/C++ Development Tool plug-in in Eclipse. There was some problem of tool chain being not enabled in Eclipse. After going through so many web pages up-down and left-right, I didn’t find much help for the same, but yes I found this interesting Web Browser Engine called WebKit.

WebKit is an open source project and to my surprise, many browsers and mobile platforms have started using it. There were bigs names like Google Android, Nokia S60, Motorola MOTOMAGX, Apple iPhone and the list was going on. It seems that it has become de facto standard for browsing engine.

WebKit usage

Eclipse

Eclipse is open development platform. I have been trying to learn it for a long time as it facilitates Android platform application development. I have got hands on it at last. It seems the tool is excellent and provides a lot of feature which I used to dream about.

I started it with Welcome page and tried to explore the different features starting from the view to creating a new Hello World application. Yeah the same one which was created by Brian Kerningham and Dennis Ritchie in C programming. It’s fun to create it a step by step procedures for Java.

Eclipse is really well thought application development environment having the following features.

- Different versions of the same components are easily available

- Project creation step guides

- File movement within the workbench

- Perspective concept thought it’s similar, but really well arranged

- Refactor feature for creating new functions from existing code

- Quick outline view

- Highlighting errors while writing the codes

- Tool finding the required import packages

- Hierarchy view of the project

- Look and feel is decent too and so on..

My personal suggestion is that it’s worth to try it. I will surely write about it in the future.