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Netsurf 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
by sebtron 3y ago
Netsurf 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.