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I am all open for new browser engines. Firefox, Safari are the only true competitor to Chromes monopoly.
by Alifatisk 3y ago
I am all open for new browser engines.
Firefox, Safari are the only true competitor to Chromes monopoly.
- sebtron 3y agoNetsurf is not exactly new. The project started in 2002 (or earlier, as part of RISC OS?) and 1.0 was released in 2007 [1]. The last stable release is from 2020. [1] http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/news.html http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/news.html
- xyzzy3000 3y agoAcorn's own first-party browser was "Browse". The documentation viewer that came preinstalled on the RiscPC/A7000 machines shared code with this, and that's about as close as one gets to having a "built-in" browser on RISC OS. There were a few others - the ANT Internet Suite had one ("Fresco"), as well as ArcWeb, Oregano, Webite and Webster/WebsterXL. What the link is basically saying is that the authors considered none of these to be a good basis for further development, and that's why NetSurf was started. Of the browsers I've listed, I don't recall any of them having source code available, but Browse may have been part of the RISC OS source code that was released. Most of the browsers were commercial, closed-source products.