WebKitGTK
WebKitGTK is a WebKit port for Linux and other Unix-like systems that uses the GTK toolkit for its user interface components. It provides a full-featured web browser engine that can be embedded into applications to render web content, handle HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web standards. It is commonly used in GNOME desktop applications, such as the Epiphany web browser, to enable web viewing capabilities.
Developers should learn and use WebKitGTK when building desktop applications for Linux or Unix-like systems that require embedded web rendering, such as email clients, help browsers, or custom web-based interfaces. It is particularly valuable in GNOME-based projects due to its integration with GTK and the broader GNOME ecosystem, offering a stable and standards-compliant way to handle web content without relying on external browsers.