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OmniWeb is a web browser developed by The Omni Group for the Mac OS X operating system.
History OmniWeb was originally developed by Omni Group and released by Lighthouse Design for the NEXTSTEP platform on March 17 1995. As NeXTSTEP evolved into OPENSTEP and then Mac OS X, OmniWeb was updated to run on these platforms. OmniWeb also briefly ran on Microsoft Windows through the Yellow Box or the OpenStep frameworks. After Lighthouse Design was bought by Sun Microsystems, the Omni Group released the product themselves, from version 2.5 onwards. From version 4.0 onwards, OmniWeb has been developed solely for the Mac OS X platform. OmniWeb is developed using the Cocoa API which allows it to take full advantage of Mac OS X features. It uses Quartz to produce sharp images and smooth text, it will use multiple processors if available, and features an interface that makes use of features such as drawers, sheets and customizable toolbars. OmniWeb originally employed its own proprietary HTML layout engine. However, the engine was not fully compatible with all of the most recent Internet standards, such as Cascading Style Sheets. In February 2003, the Omni Group adopted Apple's KHTML-based WebCore rendering engine, which was created by Apple for its Safari browser. On August 11 2004, the Omni Group released version 5.0 of OmniWeb which included a number of new features. The most notable feature was an unusual implementation of tabbed browsing, in which the tabs were displayed vertically in a drawer on the side of the window (including optional thumbnail pictures of the pages) along the side of the window. Despite a certain amount of controversy over the merits of a tab drawer over tabs that actually look like tabs, the feature has persisted through the current version. On September 6, 2006 version 5.5 was released. Major new features include a new customized WebKit core, Universal binary support, saving to web archive, support for user defined style sheets, a "Select Next Link" feature, FTP folder display, ad-blocking improvements, updated localizations, many other small changes and many bug fixes. * Features See also | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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