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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. Unmistakeably good news by CodeBitch · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'll be publishing an analysis of how well they've done, and updating the MacEdition guide to CSS2 support in Mac-only browsers in the next few days.

    Suffice to say for now that this is unmistakeably good news

    --CodeBitch

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    Cracking the whip on your naughty HTML since 2000
  2. (posted over at MacNN first) by Bwanazulia · · Score: 5, Informative

    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    - Self fixing bookmarks (can redo its own pointer, if redirected on outdated bookmark)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