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After reading this blog post over at EverythingFlex about the lack of Adobe in the OHA I was left with another question: where are the browser companies in the OHA? No Mozilla, who was creating some noise a couple months back with the announcement that they were getting into the mobile browser game ? No Opera, who's Opera Mini is, in my opinion, quite a slick little piece of work? While we can speculate wildly about the back room negotiations and decision making that leads to a given company opting in or opting out, the lack of at least one of these two organizations was a little unsettling to me, especially given the overwhelming success that is Safari on the iPhone. A browser is a necessity, so why not call in the experts?

Now comes word, taken from PCWorld's interview with Android co-founder Rich Miner about the browser question. Says Miner:

It's based on the [open source] Webkit browser technology. That's the same browser that Apple ships with the iPhone and that's used in the Nokia Series 60 phones. So it's a full desktop browser, based on the same Webkit core Apple uses for their Safari browser, but highly optimized for our mobile environment. ... It'll be a great mobile Web experience.

Okay, so I guess now I'm happy.