Abstract: With the continuous development of Internet technology and increasing popularity of Internet technology application, network television is quietly rising, and may be instead of existing broadcast TV. This paper analyzes network television and IPTV set-top box browser technology in detail, proposes embedded browser based on Webkit, and describes its work flow and design steps. The experimental results show that the embedded browser supports multiwindow opening page links, Chinese display, picture rendering speed, at the same time, Webkit provides history page caching, as well as backward, forward, historical display and so on.

Key words: embedded system, IPTV, Webkit engine, Linux technology, browser, EPG process