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OmniWeb 4.2 released; v4.5 announced

updated 02:15 pm EDT, Wed April 9, 2003

 
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The Omni Group today also announced that development of OmniWeb 4.5 is under way. OmniWeb 4.5 will be the first version of OmniWeb to incorporate the open source WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks from Apple bringing greatly improved support for the latest Internet standards like CSS, HTML, XHTML, and JavaScript to the award-winning browser. OmniWeb 4.5, which will have the functionality previously referred to as being in 5.0, will be available later this quarter and will be a free upgrade for OmniWeb 4.x license holders. The Omni Group is making early versions of OmniWeb 4.5 available through the Sneaky Peek preview program. Current OmniWeb 4.x license holders interested in testing and providing feedback on the application can download the first Sneaky Peek release, OmniWeb 4.5sp1. The preview of v4.5 wil only run in licensed mode.


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    Before Chimera/Camino

    Omniweb was the best browser for OS X, so I'm psyched Omnigroup is continuing development!

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    Sweet

    Go Omni!

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    So?

    How is 4.5? I am not registered, but can someone post some comments, maybe even a review on it?
    Thanks!

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    Not so good

    Unfortunately they have decided to ditch the rendering engine and plump for Apples web core. The way OmniWeb looked (an the fact that it was Cocoa, giving it spellchecking etc. for 'free') was the thing that differentiated it from the rest.
    OmniWeb was the best OSX browser in the 10.1 days (it's only serious rival was IE with Chimera a distant second), but now with Mozilla switching to the lighter Pheonix, and Apples serious push of Safari, any advantage they did have has vanished.

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    Safari has spellchecking

    OW won't have to give up any features to use Apple's core, except for its dinosaur rendering speed.

    This is awesome news. It was a stroke of genius on the part of Apple to make Safari's core open source--all to spure along lagging web browser development on the Mac.

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    Re: So?

    OW 4.5sp1 is a very good start. It's already more compatible by far with web sites then previous versions of OmniWeb. Speed isn't there yet, but it's not bad and I have every confidence that it will improve as 4.5 develops. And the great OW interface is intact. A bit more polish and this will be a great addition to the Mac browser family, perhaps even better than Safari.

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    Maybe it's my imaginatio

    but 4.2 seems a little faster.

    OW is still the best interface. But it is my #2 browser because Safari is so F'in fast and handles more website properly. OW is more stable than Safari, tho'.

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    the point?

    What's the point of buying this when the behaviour will be the same as the free (at least now) Safari??

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    4.5 Speed

    4.5 seems to me to be much closer to Safari in terms of page rendering speed. Much faster than 4.2...

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    Re: the point

    The point isn't about rendering speeds of browsers. If browsers were just about displaying content, then you'd only need one (say Mozilla) and could dump the rest. Its about features around the browser (for example, the big complaint about safari is the lack of tabbed browsing, but this isn't an engine thing, its a program thing). How a program handles bookmarks, content, saved content (and whether you can do that or this or the other thing) is what makes or breaks a browser. Its not just rendering.

    For example, I use mozilla for my on-line transactions, because I don't trust Safari yet with secure content (um, is there someplace in there you can actually look at a certificate, let alone warn you when entering or leaving secure sites?), which also gives me Mozilla's password manager feature. However, for pages or info I want to save, I'll use iCab because I can save a page as a web archive. I use IE to check my Hotmail account (which I barely use).

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