BlackBerry WebKit Browser Demoed by Mike Lazaridis At MWC

RIM has really been working hard on their WebKit browser since they announced it at DevCon last year. They now have a working demo that Mike Lazaridis showed off today at MWC that has some serious speed and doesn’t choke on JavaScript and AJAX. It even scores a 100/100 on the ACID3 compliance test. This means we may have some web 2.0 applications soon! Right now RIM is still being coy saying that it will be released sometime this year.

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It will support:

  • HTML 5
  • CSS3
  • DOM L3

Along with support for both BlackBerry Widgets and JIL widgets. Sadly I still see two things I didn’t see in the demo. First of all I still don’t see any tabs which would be a shame if it launched without tabs. Second of all it looks like the browser still has the annoying functionality where the screen zooms into the middle of the screen instead of the area surrounding the pointer when you click…

Hopefully RIM will get this right before it launches! Good luck RIM!

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