Nokia today announced the release to the global open source software community of the source code for S60 WebKit, the engine for its Web Browser for S60.

The web browser source code released by Nokia comes under the terms of the open source BSD License. The source code will be made available to open source developers through the WebKit Open Source Project (webkit.org). 

Nokia's recently launched Web Browser for S60 enables full mobile browsing of complete web pages as they exist on the Internet, leveraging compatibility with AJAX technologies and support for dynamic HTML and scripting language. The release of source code for the S60 Webkit browser engine, based on WebCore and JavaScriptCore components of Apple's award-winning Safari browser, will be accompanied by Nokia's active participation with the open source community in developing further enhancements to the browser, sharing changes to the core browser engine as they are made in real time.  

In addition to its modular, extensible architecture and open interfaces, key features of the code that Nokia is contributing to the open source community include:

• Memory manager, designed specifically to handle out-of-memory situations on the device;
• Mouse Pointer, delivering a desktop-like navigation experience;
• Frames rendered as tables; 
• Full support for "Text Search" capabilities; 
• Reference UI, a reference implementation of standard browser user-interface features;
• Full mobility support for dynamic HTML and the scripting language that enables it; and, 
• Preservation on mobile screens of original designer-intended web page layouts, with text custom-fitted to the mobile display width.

The first Nokia devices to include the Web browser for S60 will be ESeries (E60, E61 and E70) and NSeries devices (N71, N73, N80, N91, N92 and N93), as well as the Nokia 3250 Phone.

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