RIM Demos New WebKit-Based BlackBerry Browser [Video]

RIM demoed a new WebKit-based BlackBerry Browser during Mike Lazaridis' keynote today Mobile World Congress 2010. The browser had been previously announced at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in November but this was the first public preview.

As you can see in the video, we've adapted WebKit to take advantage of the incredible efficiency of the BlackBerry platform and it shows. With the new browser, pages load quickly and dynamic markup like Javascript and AJAX are fast and responsive. With improved panning and zooming it creates a seamless end user experience. The video showcases how the new browser delivers the web with full fidelity on your BlackBerry smartphone. All of this comes with full standards interoperability as shown by the 100/100 score on the ACID3 test.

Some of the upcoming capabilities that will be supported by the new browser include: HTML 5, CSS3, and DOM L3. It will also support two Widget standards - BlackBerry Widgets and JIL Widgets.