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OmniWeb nabs Apple Design Awards

updated 12:35 pm EDT, Mon June 4, 2001

 
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The Omni Group, at Apple's recent Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), won Apple Design Awards for "Best Mac OS X User Experience" and "Best New Mac OS X Product" for its Mac OS X native browser, OmniWeb. Catchy Software's AutoCompleter was awarded "Best Mac OS X technology Adoption," while Tenon Intersystems' Xtools won "Most Innovative Mac OS X Product".


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    Omni Group Kicks a**!

    This is not surprising -- Omni has been pumping out EXCELLENT pro-level OS X apps since square one on 3/24/01. This is a first-rate company by any measure, and the big boys should take a lesson from them.

    I hope they set their sites on Retrospect's customer base next.

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    Not justified...

    Sorry to say it, but OmniWeb is still _very_ buggy; slow as h*** and doesnt care about most WWW standards. Certainly not a product worth an award.

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    ?

    What kind of Mac are you running it on? It's fast as h*** on my G4 Cube -- faster than IE by far. I get the occasional crash, but nothing like the problems I had with IE.

    As far as standards go, that's true; a few sites aren't supported fully yet.

    All in all, though, it still beats the pants off of any other browser out there. OmniWeb feels like I'm using my browser, rather than using someone else's, if you get my meaning.

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    XTools?????

    What were they smoking when they gave an award to XTools?????? The open source XFree86 is more stable, and free.

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    That's probably because

    You can run XTools alongside The Mac OS X GUI.

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    a brody comment

    "Sorry to say it, but OmniWeb is still _very_ buggy; slow as h*** and doesnt care about most WWW standards. Certainly not a product worth an award."

    I've never seen a product as fantastic as OmniWeb get some much bullshit rants against it.

    Between morons calling it 'slow' to a brody's anti-Omni spamfest on the web, to Microsoft marketing moles who deliberately post slander against it in Macintosh forums, Omni has surfaced as the browser to beat on OS X.

    Note to Microsoft marketing moles and a brody: f*** off! OmniWeb owns you.

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    only one site

    OmniWeb is a very good browser and it's now a week I'm using it. I only have to sadly shift to I.E. for just one applets-choked site (the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford); all the other sites work perfectly well and downloads are speedy.

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    not abrody

    No, im not abrody (and therefor understand, why Java isnt working ;) ).
    doesnt help anyway. Go to ebay - select any listing and then "next page". see what i mean? For me as a frequent ebay user its a real pain to reload EVERY page.
    This is just one example though...
    And slow: yes, it is. I turned off as much eyecandy as possible - still the "live-resize" is painful slow; spawning of new windows is painful slow; rendering of window-contents is painful slow.
    icab gives you about twice the "overall browsing speed" - still lags behind OS9 by factor 2 to 5 though (same machine).

    Dont get me wrong, I like to see Omni producing high quality software - OmniWeb isnt though. Its beta at best...

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    XTools

    "You can run XTools alongside The Mac OS X GUI" What are you smoking. XFree86 also runs alongside the MacOS GUI.

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    OmniWeb Slow?

    "And slow: yes, it is. I turned off as much eyecandy as possible - still the "live-resize" is painful slow; spawning of new windows is painful slow; rendering of window-contents is painful slow. "

    Dude, I dunno what system you're running OmniWeb on, but it's fast on my G4/400 AGP, my G4 Cube 450 and my G4/533 MP. I'm not experiencing any of the slowness you've mentioned.

    I notice that half the time, people who complain of slowness of OS X and OS X apps are those who have installed OS X improperly (installed it on a UFS partition instead of HFS+), or they're using List View in the finder or something.

    I've tested OmniWeb against IE on OS X and OmniWeb beats it in page rendering speed on every single page.

    As soon as they get full support for Java, CSS, etc, it's gonna be one KICK-BUTT browser.

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