FYI: Apple’s Safari Uses Webkit — an Open Source Project

One of the best things about Apple’s Safari is the fact that it Is an open source project and in this regard then, it is leagues ahead of the Internet explorer for the simple reason that it comes unbound and doesn’t necessitate you to have an ‘ MSN Messenger” or something that you don’t want to use.

Open Source projects are usually free or come at a very low cost compared to the commercial projects. Also, they have a thriving and very supporting community of developers who always stand by to help you when you have trouble.
In the case of apple now, since they have used an open source project called as Webkit, you are not struck with the apple’s staff to help you out of technical problems but you have a full community of people like you who would have used or developed or both with regards to the software in question.

According to Apple’s developer pages and webkit’s Home page:

“ WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that’s used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit’s HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60’s S60 WebKit development..”

Also, it might be heartening to note that webkit’s primary responsibility is ‘security’ - -so even if multiple cases are reported about Apple’s Security and the bugs, it is only a mater of time when everything gets sorted out.