- ABrowse
Infobox_Software
name = ABrowse
caption = ABrowse 0.4 alpha under Syllable
developer = Kurt Skauen and Arno Klenke
latest_release_version =
latest_release_date =
operating_system = Syllable
genre =Web browser
license =GNU General Public License ABrowse is a
web browser for the Syllableoperating system . Like Apple’s Safari web browser, it uses theWebKit layout engine .History
ABrowse was originally written for
AtheOS and used a port of KDE 2’sKHTML and was first released in early August 2001.OSNews: [http://www.osnews.com/story.php/22/AtheOS-0.3.5-Released-With-KHTML-Support/ AtheOS 0.3.5 Released With KHTML Support] (August 13, 2001)] ABrowse’s inception and port of KHTML were performed by Kurt Skauen for his now-defunctAtheOS project.The port of KHTML communicated with the operating system’s GUI’swidget toolkit via a wrapper for the Qt toolkit.In December 2004, Syllable developer Arno Klenke ported ABrowse to a KDE 3 version of KHTML. [Syllyble December 2004 Newsletter: [http://archive.syllable-norden.info/msa.section.me.uk/sdn/dec-2004.html#2 ABrowse 0.4 alpha] ]
Due to difficulties with the amount of work required to maintain current ports of KHTML on Syllable, other layout engines such as Gecko have been discussed, but Arno Klenke has kept the KHTML port up-to-date in the meantime. Furthermore, while KHTML, a slimmer engine than Gecko, is made in pure
C++ , allowing it to be painlessly ported with a Qt wrapper to Syllable (which is also constructed in pure C++), Gecko is constructed with a larger, more diverse codebase, thus making a future port of Gecko a far more time- and code-intensive effort. [OSNews: [http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=1434 Syllable Team Marches On] ("Comments" section) (July 28, 2002)]Since the release of Syllable 0.6.4 in July 2007, ABrowse is based on WebKit. [Syllable: [http://www.syllable.org/story.php?id=267 New build, new ABrowse] (July 1, 2007)] [Syllable: [http://www.syllable.org/story.php?id=269 Syllable 0.6.4 released] (July 16, 2007)]
Other projects with that name
aBrowse is also the name for a web-based anonymous proxy.
ee also
*
List of web browsers
*Comparison of web browsers References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
