OmniWeb Announces 5.0 Browser

wcbrown writes "OmniGroup, makers of the popular Mac OS X browser OmniWeb have announced the upcoming beta of their next-generation browser. There's going to be tabs and they're not like any other browser out there. There's going to be a way to save and share your browsing state so you can restore your window locations and the URLs in them. There's going to be some cool nice-to-haves like integrated RSS reading, per-site preferences, and search shortcuts. The beta will be available February 2, 2004."

Comments

Re:Omni has some strange ideas...

[larkost]

Actually one of the developers has been saying that he bas been working a lot on the program on his 12" iBook, and has been saying that both the tabs and the workspaces help him better manage his screen real-estate. Of course that means he was also using XCode on a 12" iBook, and you have to be a contortionist to do that well....

Re:Stingy Location Bar

[hysterion]

it's not honest the way they're going at it, IMHO.

Safari is not playing leap frog or riding on the tails of anyone else's efforts. Omni should first attempt to get their own browser out the door without crashing all over the place; when they've demonstrated they too can write solid code, then they can do what they want.

You're so right. How dare they build on open code, implementing open standards?!? These guys are hijacking the web, pure and simple!!!

Omni should first attempt to design their own markup language and transfer protocol. Once they've demonstrated they too can write a good network stack and lay their own backbone fiber, then they can do what they want.

Anything short (including their sickening use of public roads to drive to work!!!) is just sheer piracy on their part.