First Sneaky Peeks Of OmniWeb 4.5, Browser Switches From OmniHTML To Apple's WebCore
First Sneaky Peeks Of OmniWeb 4.5, Browser Switches From OmniHTML To Apple's WebCore
by , 5:45 PM EDT, April 10th, 2003
The Omni Group, makers of the popular OmniWeb web browser and OmniGraffle outlining tool, have released the first two "Sneaky Peeks" (prerelease betas) of OmniWeb 4.5. The most notable feature of the new version is that Omni's OmniHTML framework and Mozilla-based JavaScript plugin are being replaced by Apple's open-source WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks. Both WebCore and JavaScriptCore come from Apple's Safari web browser, which in turn are based on the open-source KHTML HTML rendering library. From The Omni Group:
The Omni Group today also announced that development of OmniWeb 4.5 is under way. OmniWeb 4.5 will be the first version of OmniWeb to incorporate the open source WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks from Apple Computer Inc., bringing greatly improved support for the latest Internet standards like CSS, HTML, XHTML, and JavaScript to the award-winning browser.
OmniWeb 4.5 - which will have the functionality previously referred to as being in 5.0 - will be available later this quarter and will be a free upgrade for OmniWeb 4.x license holders. The Omni Group is making early versions of OmniWeb 4.5 available through the Sneaky Peek preview program.
OmniWeb 4.5sp2 is available to download now. Check out the release notes for known issues and changes applied to each sneaky peek. OS X 10.2 or higher is required, as is a license for a previous version of OmniWeb 4.x.
The Mac Observer Spin:
This is a significant development for OmniWeb, and one that offers some validation to Apple's choice of rendering engines. Note that the switch to Apple's WebCore was announced by the Omni Group shortly after Safari was announced, but we are very excited to see what the company will be able to do with it. OmniWeb has always been one of the most attractive browsers for Mac OS X, but lost the speed race to Chimera/Camino, as well as having some missing critical features like tabbed browsing. We expect tabs to appear now, and for speed to be improved, making the browser choice ever harder for discerning Mac OS X users.Warning: include(/usr/local/etc/httpd/sites/macobserver.com/htdocs/forums/extension.inc) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/bbm/macobserver.com/ee2/www/htdocs/comments/comments.php on line 108
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