Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Trying OmniWeb
Omniweb was one of the first web browsers. It ran on NeXTStep machines.
I remember watching it load slashdot.org on Tom's powerbook back when he was running a Rhapsody Developer Preview in 1999. It spawned 255 threads. One for each image on the page, including spacer gifs.
It was the fastest pageload I had ever seen (in this point in time). I was like like /. just appeared out of nowhere.
I'm trying the latest version, for 15 days or so, and right now, I'm pretty impressed. Feel free to check it out.
Also, for mac heads out there that complain Camino and Firefox don't scroll 'elegantly'. OmniWeb is the smoothest scrolling browser I've ever seen. Period.
I remember watching it load slashdot.org on Tom's powerbook back when he was running a Rhapsody Developer Preview in 1999. It spawned 255 threads. One for each image on the page, including spacer gifs.
It was the fastest pageload I had ever seen (in this point in time). I was like like /. just appeared out of nowhere.
I'm trying the latest version, for 15 days or so, and right now, I'm pretty impressed. Feel free to check it out.
Also, for mac heads out there that complain Camino and Firefox don't scroll 'elegantly'. OmniWeb is the smoothest scrolling browser I've ever seen. Period.
