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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=562
OmniWeb 4.1 arrives
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
June 24th 2002
The one and only Cocoa-based web browser increases support for web standards, improves
user experience
The Omni Group, developers of Mac OS X applications and game ports, announce the
latest version of OmniWeb, the only web browser built specifically for Mac OS X.
OmniWeb uses Mac OS X''s graphics engine to produce great looking smooth text that
looks like a printed page, takes full advantage of multiple processors for extra
speed, and is truly designed around the Aqua user interface, with drawers, sheets,
customizable toolbars and more.
OmniWeb provides a wide array of unique browsing features: the ability to disable
JavaScript popup windows, flexible cookie preferences, bookmarks that can check
themselves for updates, a source view window that can edit as well as display source,
very customizable ad-filtering preferences, and a powerful feature called Shortcuts
which lets you visit favorite web pages, do search engine queries, and other handy
tasks using just a few keystrokes in the address bar. OmniWeb also has an intuitive
History search that allows users to search their browsing history by text, rather than
by URL or page title, and a built-in spell checker that works in all web forms.
"We''ve put a lot of thought into improving the way people interact with their web
browsers, and I think it shows. In this point release we''ve greatly improved the
downloads interface, added speech recognition, improved keyboard navigation - and, of
course, made everything faster," said Ken Case, Chairman of The Omni Group and OmniWeb
Lead Engineer. "Our users have been telling us that they love OmniWeb''s interface and
just wish it rendered every page they visit so they can use it 100% of the time, so
most of our effort over the last year has been spent improving our support for
plug-ins (including Flash 6), Java, CSS, and JavaScript. We haven''t yet reached our
ultimate compatibility goals for OmniWeb (such as complete support for all
W3C-endorsed web standards), but in the last year we''ve made significant progress
toward that end."
"OmniWeb has around half a million users right now, and this release is for them,"
added Wil Shipley, President of The Omni Group. "Our share of the browser market has
been steadily increasing since Mac OS X started shipping, because OmniWeb is the only
browser designed for Mac OS X exclusively. For example, OmniWeb uses sub-pixel
positioning to render text, so web pages look like printed pages. Mac people notice
the difference."
OmniWeb is commercial software and is available for US$292.95 direct from the company.
A free, trial version can be downloaded here.
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