altBrowser Question and MAC version of altBrowser...

Trevor DeVore lists at mangomultimedia.com
Mon Jun 16 23:43:01 EDT 2003


On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 02:43 AM, Alex Rice wrote:
>
> Time to ante up folks! altBrowser looks like winner!
>
> Apparently Apple has not yet released the web browser API "WebKit", 
> although I see it's forthcoming from looking at the WWDC schedules. 
> What versions of MacOS do you think the altBrowser will run on? It 
> won't run on OS 9 right?
>
> If I were to guess based on past OS X developments, this WebKit thing 
> it's going to be only available on Cheetah (next Mac OS release). 
> Apple will undoubtedly be shipping Safari with future Mac OS releases 
> since MS just announced there will be no more Internet Explorer 
> released for Mac OS. But it could be a little tricky if someone is 
> running Mac OS 10.0 to 10.2 and they haven't downloaded Safari.

Apparently there is some web stuff available on Jaguar.  Omni Group has 
a beta of OmniWeb that uses WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks.  I 
am not familiar with these but take a look at the article at 
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/05/omniweb/

Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com




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