title: Another One From the Archive: ‘Web Kit’ vs. ‘WebKit’
author: John Gruber
contenttype: article
publication: Daring Fireball
published: 2026-03-12T00:26:22+00:00
sourceurl: https://daringfireball.net/2006/05/webkitvs_webkit
word_count: 116
When I re-read my 2006 piece “ And Oranges ” today before linking to it , I paused when I read this: And while it is easy to find ways to complain that Apple is not
open enough — under-documented and undocumented security updates
and system revisions, under-documented and undocumented file
formats — it would be hard to argue with the premise that Apple
today is more open than it has ever been before. (Exhibit A: the Web Kit project .) It’s not often I get to fix 20-year-old typos, and to my 2026 self, “Web Kit” looks like an obvious typo. But after a moment, I remembered: in 2006, that wasn’t a typo . ★