OmniWeb is a navigator Internet of the company Omni Group.

History

It initially was developed by Omni Group and was distributed by Lighthouse Design for the environment NeXTStep the March 17th 1995, then for OPENSTEP and since 2000 for Mac OS X, where he was the first navigator available in final version. OmniWeb also briefly functioned on Microsoft Windows through the Yellow Box or of the Framework S OpenStep. After Lighthouse Design was repurchased by Sun Microsystems, Omni Group distributed the product themselves starting from version 2.5. As of version 4, OmniWeb was developed exclusively for the platform Mac OS X.

It preserved a long time a popularity due to the use of the native resources of Mac OS X (API Cocoa) making it possible to fully take part of the functionalities of Mac OS X, giving to the Web pages a coherent appearance with the system, contrary to Internet Explorer which, him also available very early, offered a out-of-date interface.

It uses Quartz to produce refined images and a smoothed text. It can also benefit from the machines multiprocessor S and proposes an interface which uses functions like the drawers, the previsualisation of the miters, the toolbars personnalisables or the edition of the code of the Web pages.

Probably the best addition to navigation on Internet than OmniWeb made was the blocking of the emerging windows. Copied later by about all the principal navigators, including Firefox and Internet Explorer, this revolutionary function is originating in OmniWeb.

However, since the appearance of other navigators like Camino, Opera or Safari, its advantage was reduced considerably, and this more especially as OmniWeb is a Partagiciel and not a Gratuiciel. For this reason, since the version 4.5 OmniWeb took another strategy. Indeed, in the OmniWeb beginning its clean returned Moteur HTML owner used. Unfortunately, the engine was not fully compatible with all recent standards Internet, as the style sheets cascades about it (Cascading Style Sheets). In February 2003, Omni Group officially decided to adopt the engine of returned WebCore developed by Apple on the basis of free engine KHTML. This choice made it possible the developers to be focused on the functionalities of the navigator, repositioning it like an evolution of the free navigators and thus justifying the maintenance of OmniWeb like partagiciel.

The August 11th 2004, Omni Group left version 5.0 OmniWeb which included many new functions. The most notable innovation was the completely unusual implementation of the tabbed browsing, in which the miters were laid out vertically in a drawer on a side or the other of the window, including the optional previsualisation of the pages. In spite of a certain number of controversies on the utility of a drawer of miters compared to a bar of miters, the function persisted to the current version.

Omniweb is today in version 5.5, with a plethora of new functions, unquestionable available only on this navigator.

Functionalities

The principal functionalities are:

• Edition of a form in a separate window: To click in the corner high right of a field multiple-line in order to open it in a separate window. This helps when you wish to add much text in a very small zone and that you want to be able all to see of a blow. This function also makes it possible to add Tabulation S.
• Visualization of the bonds: While clicking on this button in the bar of tools, it is possible to quickly see all the bonds contained in the page.
• Blocking of publicities: OmniWeb uses a powerful filter of blocking of publicities to stop the loading of the images since the corresponding waiters. It is also possible to block the images which are not originating in the current waiter for which you block the images.
• Shortened: A key word or a sentence makes it possible to enter to open certain Web sites or to begin a specific research.
• Preferences of site: OmniWeb makes it possible to specify preferences which will apply to specific sites. For example, if you adjust the size of the characters and that you change the identity of the navigator on a certain page, the adjustments will be used for all the other pages of the same site. The preferences are recorded automatically and kept between each session of navigation.
• ColorSync : In OmniWeb, you can choose to post profile ColorSync (if they exist) when you look at images. A single function for the photographers and all those which have specific needs for color.
• Checking of the orthography: An interesting function which makes it possible to correct the orthography with stolen in the fields of text.
• workspaces: OmniWeb makes it possible to memorize all the opened pages and all miters, manually or automatically to restore them during a forthcoming launching. It is possible to record each session of navigation individually in a place of your choice on hard drive in order to always be able to keep them under the hand. Omniweb records which are the pages in the miters, the history, and even the site of the windows to the screen. It is possible Slip-to deposit the contents of a workspace towards another, even to send a workspace by email to other users of OmniWeb 5
• Édition of the source code of a page: In OmniWeb it is possible to publish the source code of a page and réafficher with its modified contents. It is also possible to return on the waiter the page thus modified (provided that the waiter authorizes it).

See too

Related articles

• Omni Group | OmniGraffle | OmniOutliner | OmniDiskSweeper | OmniObjectMeter | OmniDictionary | OmniPlan

• List of navigators Web

External bonds

• Page of OmniWeb

• Site of Omni Group
• OmniWeb wiki