BlackBerry is set to support CSS3, HTML5 and Ajax

Research in Motion, makers of the well-liked BlackBerry smart telephone series, have revealed plans to launch a new browser for their telephones primarily based on the open source WebKit layout engine, and offered representatives at this weeks Mobile World Congress a sneak preview.

Though technologies like CSS3 and HTML5 have slowly been making headway recently across the web, it is in the mobile world that they have truly been brought to heart, with Apples iPhone leading the way.Partly, due to an absence of flash support, application developers have been fast to benefit from the advantages of CSS3 and HTML5 in their software, thanks mostly to the high level of support found in Apple’s WebKit powered Safari browser. Once the smart telephone of choice for most the BlackBerry has left many clients irritated with its current browser, plagued by slow behavior and shortage of support for JavaScript-heavy pages and modern web standards.

Their new WebKit based browser should in principle bring the BlackBerry back on par with other phones, at least in skimming terms, offering support for CSS3, HTML5 and AJAX as well as seriously improved JavaScript handling, with the browser scoring one hundred / a hundred in the Acid 3 Test. Maybe more importanly, with Apple, BlackBerry and Android powered devices now all sharing the WebKit layout engine, developers will be in a position to make use of technologies like CSS3 and HTML5 in actually cross platform deployments, instead of being restricted to working only for one platform.