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OmniWeb Announces WebCore-Based Browser

Posted by pudge on from the one-engine-to-rule-them-all dept.

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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  1. Re:First of its kind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > To my knowledge, this is the first non-free(as
    > in beer) commercial browser derived in any way
    > from khtml. Omni must be pretty confident that
    > webcore is a solid and advantagous choice for
    > the future of omniweb. This says something
    > about the maturity of khtml.

    I think it says more about the corner Omni had painted them in (writing a simple browser is fun; writing a fully compliant browser is lots of hard work). Omniweb was behind in CSS support, and not moving faster than the competition

  2. Re:what's MS gonna do? by TwP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmmm . . . does it make sense to expend resources for less than 1% of the market? Of all the personal computers out there only 3% - 5% are Macs. If there are already several other browsers for the platform - Safari, Camino, OmniWeb, Mozilla - how much market share is Microsoft really going to get? And to what advantage?

    Yes, there are some websites out there that will only render under IE5 [sarcasm] let's hear it for standards on the web [/sarcasm], but does Microsoft really care about the million or so OSX users who might want to see those websites? It just doesn't make business sense to do anything innovative for so little returns.

    Now I'm going to turn into Mr. Conspiracy Theory, but the only reason MS invested into Apple financially and supported IE5 and Office on the OSX paltform was to keep the DoJ off its back. Now that Apple is coming out with their own browser and, according to the rumor sites, their own Office suite, do you think Microsoft is really going to invest the time and money to support the competition?

    Microsoft needs Apple, but they don't need Apple to take away their market share.