Editing WebKit (section)

===WebKit2===
On April 8, 2010, a project named WebKit2 was announced to redesign WebKit. Its goal was to abstract the components that provide web rendering cleanly from their surrounding interface or application shell, creating a situation where, "web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate process from the application UI". This abstraction was intended to make reuse a more straightforward process for WebKit2 than for WebKit. WebKit2 had "an incompatible API change from the original WebKit", which motivated its name change.<ref name=webkit2wiki>{{cite web|url=https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2|title=WebKit2 wiki|publisher=Webkit.org|access-date=August 3, 2012}}</ref>

The WebKit2 targets were set to Linux, macOS, Windows, [[GTK]], and [[MeeGo]]-Harmattan.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2010-April/012235.html |title=Announcing WebKit2 |date=April 8, 2010 |publisher=Webkit.org |access-date=December 27, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423042000/https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2010-April/012235.html |archive-date=April 23, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name=meego-harmattan>{{cite web|url=http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/06/21/introducing-the-nokia-n9-all-it-takes-is-a-swipe/|title=Introducing the Nokia N9: all it takes is a swipe! &#124;Nokia Conversations – The official Nokia Blog|publisher=Nokia Corporation|access-date=June 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624125835/http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/06/21/introducing-the-nokia-n9-all-it-takes-is-a-swipe|archive-date=June 24, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Safari for macOS switched to the new API with version 5.1.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trac.webkit.org/browser/releases/Apple/Safari%205.1/WebKit2?rev=91373| title=Source code repository for public parts of Safari 5.1|publisher=The WebKit Open Source Project| access-date=July 20, 2011}}</ref> Safari for iOS switched to WebKit2 with iOS 8.<ref>{{cite web|title=WWDC 2014 Session 206 - Introducing the Modern WebKit API - ASCIIwwdc|url=http://asciiwwdc.com/2014/sessions/206|access-date=December 13, 2014|archive-date=December 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213032037/http://asciiwwdc.com/2014/sessions/206|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The original WebKit API has been renamed WebKitLegacy API.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132399 | title=132399 – Move the legacy WebKit API into WebKitLegacy.framework and move it inside WebKit.framework|publisher=Webkit.org}}</ref> WebKit2 API has been renamed just plain WebKit API.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2017-July/029257.html|title=Renaming Directories and Project Files to Match Framework Names|date=July 10, 2017 |publisher=Webkit.org}}</ref>