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Research In Motion Looking For A WebKit Developer

by Robb Dunewood on October 21, 2009 · 0 comments

Webkit Developer

It was a pretty good indication that Research in Motion has big plans for it’s BlackBerry Browser when it acquired Torch Mobile, makers of the WebKit based IRIS browser.  It looks like the company is chugging away on their promise to have a BlackBerry Browser “on par with the iPhone“, by next summer and they are looking for a little help.

If you take a look over at LinkedIn, you can find a job posting for a WebKit Developer at Research in Motion.

We are currently looking for a talented and passionate individual to join a growing team within the BlackBerry Platform organization. Utilizing their expert knowledge in C++ programming, the successful candidate will be working in a fast-paced, dynamic development environment to develop a WebKit-based browser for the BlackBerry Platform.

You can check the full job posting out here.

[Via BlackBerry Cool]

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In this video of what I believe to be a Rogers BlackBerry Storm 9520, Scott4551 demonstrates web browsing via Wi-Fi.  All I’ve got to say is that I certainly hope this improves by the time the BlackBerry Storm 2 ships.

Download speeds are faster, but, other than that, things look pretty much the same as they do on the original BlackBerry Storm.

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Flash BlackBerry Browser

You  may have heard that RIM intends for the BlackBerry Browser to be on par with the iPhone by next summer.  What you may not have known is that the new and improved BlackBerry Browser will include full support for Flash and Silverlight as well.

We just hope that when RIM does release a new BB Browser that it doesn’t feel “last year” compared to whatever Apple does on the iPhone.  We doubt seriously that they will be standing still waiting for the BlackBerry to catch up.

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The Boy Genius has gotten his hands on the Incremental Features Document for BlackBerry Device Software Version 4.6 expected to debut with the BlackBerry 9000. A bunch of things like themes, language support, media applications, and streaming media, etc., have been redone. We however want to talk about just one update which arguably might be the coolest of them all.

From the looks of it, the BlackBerry Browser has been updated significantly from the bag of arse that it was before to a mobile browser acceptable by todays standards. It’s not Safari on the iPhone, but, quite frankly, it doesn’t have to be.

The web rendering has been improved dramatically and now supports the following AJAX capabilities…

  • JavaScript 1.5
  • CSS 2.1 (including Lists, Box Model, Positioning, Floats, Visual Effects, Tables, Colors, Backgrounds & Text Properties; NOT including system fonts and generated content)
  • DOM L2 (including Core, HTML, Style, Events)
  • HTML 4.01 (including Forms, Maps, Tables, Frames, Objects)
  • XMLHttpRequest

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