#Omniweb mac os x full#
#Omniweb mac os x windows#

OmniWeb was Omni Group's flagship app but as OS X web browsers improved-Apple eventually bundled Safari into OS X- and Omni successfully introduced other products such as OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner, OmniWeb's importance diminished. Major new features include the use of a custom version of WebKit instead of WebCore, universal binary support, saving to web archive, support for user-defined style sheets, a 'Select Next Link' feature, FTP folder display, ad-blocking improvements, updated localizations, and many other small changes and bug fixes. On September 7, 2006, version 5.5 was released. The most notable addition was an unusual implementation of tabbed browsing, in which the tabs are displayed vertically in a drawer on the side of the window (including optional thumbnail pictures of the pages.) Despite a certain amount of controversy over the merits of a tab drawer over a tab toolbar, the feature persists through the final version. On August 11, 2004, the Omni Group released version 5.0 of OmniWeb which added a number of new features.

In OmniWeb version 4.5, the Omni Group adopted Apple's KHTML-based WebCore rendering engine, which was created by Apple for its Safari browser. However, this engine was very slow, particularly when scrolling, and was not fully compatible with the most recent web standards, such as Cascading Style Sheets. The Omni Group originally employed its own proprietary HTML layout engine that use standard API NSText components. It makes use of multiple processors if available, and features an interface that made use of Aqua UI features such as drawers, sheets, and customizable toolbars. It uses Quartz to render images and smooth text.

#Omniweb mac os x full#

OmniWeb was developed using the Cocoa API which allow it to take full advantage of OS X features. From version 4.0 onwards, OmniWeb was developed solely for the OS X platform. After Lighthouse Design was bought by Sun Microsystems, the Omni Group released the product themselves, from version 2.5 onwards.

#Omniweb mac os x windows#

These early versions of OmniWeb also run on Microsoft Windows through the Yellow Box or the OpenStep frameworks. As NeXTSTEP evolved into OPENSTEP and then Mac OS X, OmniWeb was updated to run on these platforms. OmniWeb was originally developed by Omni Group for the NeXTSTEP platform, and was released by Lighthouse Design on Ma after only one month's development time.