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on Windows a dotnet wrapper app around WebBrowser control would usually not incorporate the dll, so basically its executable would be small. How about a similar Cocoa custom browser using WebKit – will it be trivially small or will it incorporate the WebKit itself and hence be relatively hefty?
By default all system libraries on the Mac are dynamically linked. This includes WebKit. Otherwise, whenever you did a Mac OS X Software Update, none of the apps on the system would use the updated code.
WebKit updates are usually delivered whenever Apple updates Safari. If you install a new version of Safari, the new WebKit framework will be used by all apps that implement a
WebView, unless those apps have linked to their own private version of WebKit.