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Omni Releases OmniWeb 4.5 Using Safari Engine

Posted by pudge on from the omni-lovin dept.

John C. Worsley writes "The Omni Group released version 4.5 of OmniWeb, based on Apple's WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks (the same KHTML-derived APIs that Safari uses)."

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  1. Still no tabbed browsing by Sick+Dave · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When the hell will they add tabs? Everybody else is doing it, why can't OmniGroup?

    1. Re:Still no tabbed browsing by kingLatency · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They're waiting for eveyone else to jump off a bridge first. This is nonsense. I've met one person ever that didn't like tabbed browsing. Everyone else recognizes it for what it is, a very useful feature. Also, it's unobtrusive for those that wish not to use it. I think that if they added this, they'd get a lot more people to try (or come back to, in my case) to their browser.

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  2. Re:Not zactly. by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Omni Group isn't exactly "the public" when it comes to NSprogramming. There may be features that they would like to implement that require reaching in and grabbing stuff inside WebCore and JavaScriptCore. They wouldn't have that option with WebKit.

    I don't see why this would necessarily give rise to compatibility problems or bugs. The Safari and KHTML groups should keep both WebKit and WebCore updated just fine.

    Has anybody used the product? Is it the vast improvement that we all expected?

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  3. Kudos for a good decision by HotButteredHampster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Way to go, Omni Group! IMHO, nothing can kill a small company faster than trying to reinvent the wheel. HTML rendering is a commodity. The public expectation is that it will happen correctly. Do it wrong (like OmniWeb used to with annoying frequency) and people will jump all over you. Let a bigger group/company do it for you and reap the rewards!

    That way you can spend your developer time creating the application experience, which is where OmniWeb has excelled in the past and will continue to in the future. I expect to see great things, maybe great enough to make me part with $29.95!

    HBH
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  4. Re:Why would I want to use this??? by jcr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would I want to pay someone $29.95

    There were three main reasons for me.

    1) Cookie control. "Take the cookie and toss it when I quit the app" is a great thing.

    2) Killing banner ads.

    3) Showing me when pages have changed. Big time-saver for me.

    YMMV, but for my money, OmniWeb would be worth $50, easy.

    -jcr

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  5. Re:Looks good but.. by ihatewinXP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "or Ill just wait for opera 7 for OSX..."

    Youre going to be waiting quite some time. There is absolutely no room for another browser on the mac platform. I wish there was room for OmniWeb and I hope it suceeds - but Opera? Sorry but 1. its an ugly port and 2. they burned any credibility they had in the mac community when they bashed Apple for not licensing their HTML Engine.
    And btw, mouse gestures can be added to any cocoa app (which OmniWeb is) just do a search for gestures on Versiontracker and im sure you will find it.

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