Wow, I decided to work on WebKit in the public for OpenMoko as I thought the interest in WebKit was quite low. That is luckily not the case. There are a lot of people interested, some of them are allowed to work full-time and some part-time on it. From an Embedded Linux point of view the main obstacle of WebKit is storage size. It is doing million times better than Gecko but there are still some issues.

• Require libicu for Unicode handling. This weights almost 4MB of storage
• libxml2 just for XML tokenizing
• XPath and XQuery support in webkit

But these can be omitted and WebKit can be slimmed easily. But it needs to be done.