OmniWeb Announces WebCore-Based Browser

mwelty writes "OmniWeb 4.5sp1 (sneaky peek one) was announced today, and as far as I know this is the first major browser application for Mac OS X that is embedding Apple's Open Source WebCore and JavaScriptCore. As many /. readers might recall, Apple released Safari in January at MWSF, which it based on the KHTML codebase, and has since been releasing their WebCore and JavaScriptCore to developers regularly."

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(posted over at MacNN first)

[Bwanazulia]

Here are some others (off the top of my head now that I sit in front of an NT workstation).

Bookmarks:
- Self updating (can check for changes ever X min/hour/day/week and highlights when changed)
- Self fixing bookmarks (can redo its own pointer, if redirected on outdated bookmark)
- Object oriented (a folder with an update time on it will update all of the bookmarks in the folder)
- Filter on dead bookmarks (shows list of all dead bookmarks, great for cleanup)
- Shows updated bookmarks in dock
- Dock icon is clickable to updated bookmarks
- Go to next new bookmark button
- Can pick folder for new bookmarks to be added to

Customizable
- Toolbar (unlike Safari) can be customized like any other cocoa app
- Can make it very small which is good for powerbooks with limited vertical space

Download manager
- Respects where to download to
- Shows progress
- Can stay in the background

Other
- Spell checking (works, always, first)
- Very cool search on bookmark and history titles
- Best ad blocking around (size and string based */ads/*)
- Click link to open window behind
- Tons of contextual features like "Save all links" and "Save all images")
- Shortcuts that allow you to do quick things like "gg slash" and it will search for slash at google

What I want to see in OW 5.0
- Some sort of tabbed thingy (rumors are they are working on a new type of tabs)
- Diplay favicons in toolbar and in bookmarks
- More goodies...

BZ