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=== Installed base === New web browsers have been built around WebKit such as the [[S60 (software platform)|S60]] browser<ref name="Nokia S60 Webkit Browser">{{cite web|url=http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/|title=Nokia S60 Webkit Browser|publisher=Nokia|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051206034449/http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/|archive-date=December 6, 2005|df=mdy-all}}</ref> on [[Symbian]] mobile phones, [[BlackBerry OS|BlackBerry]] Browser (ver 6.0+), [[Midori (web browser)|Midori]], [[Google Chrome|Chrome]] browser,<ref name="Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project">{{cite web|url=http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html|title=Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902065842/http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html|archive-date=September 2, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="google-comic">{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/|title=Comic describing the Google Chrome Project|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080903142023/http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/|archive-date=September 3, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref> the [[Android (operating system)|Android]] Web browsers before version 4.4 KitKat, and the browser used in [[PlayStation 3 system software]] from version 4.10.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://d.hatena.ne.jp/amatanoyo/20120208/1328681210 |title=PS3ใใใกใผใ ใฆใงใขv4.10ใใWebKitใธใ - ใใพใใฎไฝใใใใ |publisher=D.hatena.ne.jp |date=February 8, 2012 |access-date=January 13, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014094455/http://d.hatena.ne.jp/amatanoyo/20120208/1328681210 |archive-date=October 14, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> KDE's Rekonq web browser and [[Plasma Workspaces]] also use it as the native web rendering engine. WebKit has been adopted as the rendering engine in [[OmniWeb]], [[iCab]] and [[Web (web browser)|Web]] (formerly named Epiphany) and [[Sleipnir (web browser)|Sleipnir]], replacing their original rendering engines. GNOME's Web supported both [[Gecko (layout engine)|Gecko]] and WebKit for some time, but the team decided that Gecko's release cycle and future development plans would make it too cumbersome to continue supporting it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2008-April/msg00000.html|title=Epiphany Mailing list โ ''Announcement: The Future of Epiphany''|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214042734/http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2008-April/msg00000.html|archive-date=February 14, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[webOS]] uses WebKit as the basis of its application runtime.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Chen |first=Brian X. |url=https://www.wired.com/2011/02/hp-web-os-tablet |title=HP Launches WebOS-Powered Tablet, Phones | Gadget Lab |magazine=Wired |access-date=January 13, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410211728/http://www.wired.com/2011/02/hp-web-os-tablet |archive-date=April 10, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> WebKit is used to render HTML and run JavaScript in the [[Adobe Integrated Runtime]] application platform. In [[Adobe Creative Suite]] CS5, WebKit is used to render some parts of the user interface. As of the first half of 2010, an analyst estimated the cumulative number of mobile handsets shipped with a WebKit-based browser at 350 million.<ref>{{cite web|title=100 Million Club (H1 2010 update)|url=http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2010/10/smart-feature-phones-the-unbalanced-equation-100-million-club-series/|publisher=VisionMobile|access-date=March 1, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301192936/http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2010/10/smart-feature-phones-the-unbalanced-equation-100-million-club-series/|archive-date=March 1, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> By mid-April 2015, WebKit [[usage share of web browsers|browser market share]] was 50.3%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201504-201504-bar/|title=StatCounter|publisher=StatCounter|access-date=April 14, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120526/http://gs.statcounter.com/%23mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201012-201111-bar#browser-ww-monthly-201504-201504-bar/|archive-date=May 26, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
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