OmniWeb for Mac OS X, the Web browser from The Omni Group, has been available in beta form for much longer than Mac users have had access to the public beta. The Omni Group today released the finished version of OmniWeb 4.0 for Mac OS X.
The Web browser was developed using Cocoa, Apple’s object oriented programming framework. The Omni Group said that OmniWeb leverages many of the core technologies of Mac OS X, including symmetric multiprocessing, multithreading, and the Quartz graphics display engine. OmniWeb also supports the Aqua interface, AppleScript, ColorSync and other Mac OS X features.
OmniWeb also supports a wide variety of Internet standards as well, including HTML 4.0, JavaScript, Java 2, QuickTime, Flash, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 1, Secure Sockets Layer, and more.
The Omni Group president Wil Shipley said that OmniWeb has been around since 1993, and has pioneered many firsts for Web browsers.
“Over the years, we’ve been proud to introduce many of the ideas that are now considered standard components of web browsers — including draggable links and draggable, hierarchical bookmarks. And we’re introducing many new features with this version,” said Shipley.
New features in OmniWeb 4.0 include the ability to remember values in forms by bookmarking their pages; full-text searches through pages you’ve visited; and to store network passwords in a secure Keychain. OmniWeb can also block suspected advertisements and allows users to block cookie tracking on a site-by-site basis.
OmniWeb also sports HTML editing abilities. The application can view the source from any Web page; users can edit the code and redisplay it locally on their Mac. Other features include syntax coloring, to help users identify incorrectly formed HTML as it is typed; a JavaScript debugging console, and more.
Best of all, The Omni Group offers OmniWeb for free, although they encourage users who feel “little flashes of guilt” to buy a license.
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