HP's open-sourcing of webOS continues today, with the release of the underlying Isis web browser along with a governance model and more of the Enyo components developers will need to create their ...

HP has published the source code of Isis, the webOS Web browser. The company has also released the code of the browser's underlying HTML rendering engine, which is based on QtWebKit.

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HP has also chosen QtWebKit–pronounced “cute WebKit”–to provide the basis for Web experiences through Open webOS, and on Tuesday it released Isis, its new QtWebKit-based browser.

We spoke with WebOS Internals founder Rod Whitby on the matter and he confirmed the group’s plans, but explained Isis won’t replace the browser in webOS 3.0.5.

With a focus on web technologies, webOS could be deployed in the iPad’s Mobile Safari browser as a web-app; this produced similar results, with it running many times faster in the browser than ...

In fact, Enyo 2.0 allows developers to write cross-platform apps that can run on webOS, and in web browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9 and Safari.

As more and more content moves to the web, Chang said he thinks webOS will “really help bringing content back to smart TV, to tablets, PCs, other products.” Read Article > Feb 25, 2013 Nilay Patel ...

HP acquired WebOS with its $1.2 billion Palm purchase last year, but short-lived CEO Leo Apotheker decided to ditch WebOS and the mobile devices it powered.

Windows Mobile 6.5–which delivers a more modern, touch-driven interface, a better browser, and a download store–is unlikely to show up on phones until September, and in any case it doesn’t ...

HP has opened the source code of Isis the webOS Web browser, which is powered by QtWebKit. The code is distributed under an Apache license and is available from GitHub. Read the whole story ...