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Shiira 2.0b1 Web Browser Preview
So, What's In The New Camino And Shiira Betas?
Tiny Opera Says It Can Still Compete In Browser Battle
Shiira 2.0b1 Web Browser Preview
Shiira is a web browser based on the Apple Web Kit's KHTML engine and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available.
Shiira 2.0b1 is a "Preview of New Version". Note that this is a beta version software. It can be expected to be unstable and many features are not implemented yet.
The project's intent is to create absolute new user interface for 2.0. It was hard to extend the 1.x style interface, so the operative guideline is: "what is the best user interface for the browser of the latest Mac OS X" from scratch.
The purpose of this release is to introduce the new design. Almost fixed.
The following have been implemented in the current version:
* Tabbed windows
* Bookmark management
* Sharing more...bookmarks with Safari
* Side drawer showing bookmarks and history
* Bookmarks toolbar
* Search field with choice of search engine
* Customizing toolbar
* Cache control panel
* Window appearance switching (Aqua and Metal)
* Toolbar icons switching
* Removing Cookie and cache at the termination
* Displaying favicon list
* Enable/disable favicon with bookmark
* Help document (Japanese only)
* Multiple source windows per one browser window
* Displaying HTTP header in source window
* Wheel button operation (open in new tab, and tab switching)
* Auto-tab for bookmark folder
* Displaying back-forward list on toolbar buttons
* Search text field for bookmark and history
System requirements:
Shiira 2.0 required Mac OS X 10.4, because one of the purpose of the Shiira project is to leverage latest Mac OS X features, ex. Core Data. But we have plan to release the successor of current 1.2 version, that is for 10.3.
Shiira is freeware
For more information, visit:
http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en
So, What's In The New Camino And Shiira Betas?
oreillynet.com's Giles Turnbull says:
So, what's in the new Camino beta?
The answer is, some long-awaited stuff. Several of the features now appearing in this beta are ones that I am very pleased to see and will get a lot of use from.
Among them:
• spellchecking in text fields
• better RSS handling
• access Bookmark Bar bookmarks using Command+1, Command+2, etc
• force links that would normally open in new windows to open in new tabs (aka Single Window Mode)....
While we're on the subject of browsers, I tried out the latest Shiira beta release yesterday, which has some interesting new features and UI changes.
Shiira's bookmarks and history are now in iPhoto-style HUDs. The tab bar has been relocated to the bottom of the window, and now sports OmniWeb-ish thumbnails. There's also a new Shelf feature, replacing the old drawer and giving you more detailed access to bookmarks, history, downloads and search engine settings.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/10/browser_browsing.html
Tiny Opera Says It Can Still Compete In Browser Battle
TechWeb's Gregg Keizer reports:
Even as Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 rolls out to users and Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox 2.0 nears completion, rival Opera Software remains convinced it can compete, a company executive said Thursday.
Oslo, Norway-based Opera, which develops the same-named browser for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and other desktop platforms, as well as miniature browsers for mobile phones and devices, owns less than one percent of the global browser market, according to Web metrics vendors. But its low numbers doesn't faze the company's chief technology officer, Hakon Wium Lie.
"We want to increase our user base," said Lie, "and we think we can do it. We just need to educate people about Opera, and show them how Opera compares with the others, especially in security."
[Editor's note: Ithink that if more poeple tried Opera, more wound use it. Opera is definitely my favorite in the extraordinarily strong field of OS X browsers, my favorite attributes being speed, rock-solid stability, and the ability to restore your last browser session after a quit. I wish Apple had chosen the Opera engine as the basis for Safari. CM]
For the full report visit here:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/193400694
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