Origyn Web Browser
{{Short description|Open source web browser}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}}
{{Infobox web browser
| screenshot = Screenshot of Origyn Web Browser on AROS OS of Wikipedia's homepage.png
| caption = OWB running on AROS showing Wikipedia
| developer = Sand-labs, Fabien Coeurjoly
| released =
| programming language = C++
| operating system = AmigaOS, AROS, MorphOS
| language = 12
| status =
| genre = Web browser
| license = BSD-3-Clause
| website = http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/
}}
Origyn Web Browser (OWB) is a discontinued web browser that was synchronized with WebKit and sponsored by the technology company Pleyo. OWB provides a meta-port to an abstract platform with the aim of making porting to embedded or lightweight systems faster and easier.{{cite web |url=http://www.sand-labs.org/owb.html |title=OWB Trac Page |publisher=Sand-Labs |access-date=August 4, 2009}}{{cite web |url=http://www.webmonkey.com/print/blog/New_Web_Browser_Leverages_Apple_s_Web_Kit_Engine |title=New Web Browser Leverages Apple's Web Kit Engine |publisher=WebMonkey |access-date=August 4, 2009}} This port is used for embedded devices such as set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics.{{cite web |url=http://www.pleyo.org/produits/owb_us.html |title=About OWB |publisher=Pleyo |access-date=August 4, 2009}}{{cite web |url=http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/03/safari-based-browser-coming-to-nokia-n800.html |title=WebKit based browser coming to Nokia N800 |date=August 3, 2007 |publisher=IntoMobile |access-date=August 4, 2009}}{{cite web |url=http://arm.com/iqonline/news/marketnews/21701.html |title=French Companies Add IVY Extension For Origyn Web Browser |publisher=IQONLINE |access-date=August 4, 2009}}
OWB has also found popularity on the AmigaOS-like operating systems. Current versions include AmigaOS,{{cite web |url=http://strohmayer.org/owb/ |title=Origyn Web Browser for AmigaOS |last=Strohmayer |first=Jörg |publisher=author |access-date=August 4, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728065444/http://strohmayer.org/owb/ |archive-date=July 28, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}{{cite web |url=http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6062 |title=The MorphOS/MUI version of OWB 1.9 for AOS4 is released}} AROS{{cite web |url=http://sszymczy.rootnode.net/index.php?menu=projects&submenu=owb |title=Origyn Web Browser for AROS |publisher=Stanislaw Szymczyk |access-date=August 4, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304120818/http://sszymczy.rootnode.net/index.php?menu=projects&submenu=owb |archive-date=March 4, 2009 |df=mdy-all }} and MorphOS{{cite web |url=http://www.osnews.com/story/21627/OWB_1_3_Released_for_MorphOS/ |title=OWB 1.3 Released for MorphOS |publisher=OSnews |last=Holwerda |first=Thom |date=June 8, 2009 |access-date=February 2, 2010}} official ports.
When Sand-labs disappeared, MorphOS developer Fabien Coeurjoly took over and eventually renamed project to Odyssey Web Browser when it did not have any original Sand-labs code left.
History
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OWB was created by Pleyo, a French software firm located in Montpellier, France in 2006.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}
Versions
Milestone versions of Origyn Web Browser:
- Robespierre – November 22, 2007
- Blastoise – July 1, 2008
- DoDuo – July 1, 2008
- Galekid – December 19, 2008
- Galegon – February 11, 2009
- Galeking – June 4, 2009
- Pukapuka – October 8, 2009
Announced:
- Pukarua – unreleased
Features
OWB is a web browser optimized for consumer electronics (CE) devices and embedded system, such as mobile phones, portable media players, set-top boxes (STB) and TV decoders, and various other consumer electronic products such as GPS, home-gateways, Web-radios, digital video recorder (PVR), DVD recorders, wireless devices, etc.
OWB is based on Webkit by Apple, and its ease of porting is based upon a browser abstraction layer called OWBAL. The existence of this abstraction layer architecture dramatically eases the task of integrating OWB in CE devices, resulting in fast and easy implementation on target platforms. The aim of the abstraction layer is to allow CE software producers to leverage extant libraries, instead of needing to port the browser and its full set of dependencies.
OWBAL abstraction is based on interfaces, which are described through abstract classes, and these classes contain only pure virtual methods. No default implementation is allowed.
=General characteristics=
File:Owb-inspector-resources.png
OWB supports full Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) 2.1, CSS3 support, styleable form controls, enhanced rich text editing, XML technologies, XPath (GTK port), SVG (partial SVG 1.1 full) (GTK port, Qt port and Amiga port), XSLT processor, JavaScript API for XSLT, MathML, notifications, SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX) on x86, HTML5.
OWB features Netscape-style (NPAPI) plug-ins (GTK and MorphOS ports) including support for mplayer, Adobe Flash Player and DiamondX.
The browser can pass Acid2 test with a 100% evaluation on all ports and Acid3 test with a 99% evaluation on SDL port and a 100% evaluation on ports for GTK, Qt, Amiga, and MorphOS.
It features also accessibility support and support for cross document messaging, databases, datagrid, dom storage, filtera, geolocation, icon database, offline web application, server-sent events, sharedWorker video/audio, WebSockets, Worker and 3D support.
Platform graphics engines include GTK, Qt, SDL, Cairo with Magic User Interface and Win32 (not yet public).
The font engine used is Freetype.
OWB is also POSIX compliant.
Origyn can handle threads (with Pthreads) and supports GTK, Qt and uClibc.
Odyssey Web Browser
Odyssey Web Browser is probably the most mature of the Amiga and Amigalike-OS ports, as it has a download manager and much of the other UI features of a modern browser already separately added by its developer. Version 1.6 (December 2009) sports Adobe Flash SWF player plug-in based on Swfdec,{{cite web |url=http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=29169&forum=28&start=0&viewmode=flat&order=0#499489 |title=OWB MorphOS gets integrated Flash Support |publisher=Fabian Coeurjoly |access-date=August 26, 2017}} version 1.6.1 has been integrated with web profiling and debugging tool called Webinspector. Since version 1.7 (March 2010), Odyssey supports also HTML5 tags and media content through FFmpeg.{{cite web |url=http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/ |title=Origyn Web Browser for MorphOS |publisher=Fabian Coeurjoly |access-date=January 4, 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://www.osnews.com/story/22971/Origyn_Web_Browser_1_7_Supports_HTML5_Media_More |title=Origyn Web Browser 1.7 Supports HTML5 Media, More |publisher=OSNews |last=Holwerda |first=Thom |date=March 8, 2010 |access-date=March 8, 2010}}
MorphOS release of OWB is also distributed in a Lite version for the minimal computer motherboard Efika.
Screenshots
The following are several screenshots showing the various features of OWB.
File:Owb-inspector-profiler.png|Profiler
File:Owb-inspector-elements.png|Elements inspector
File:Owb-inspector-debug.png|Debugger
File:OWB-inspector-audit.png|Auditor
File:Owb-scriptmanager.png |Script manager
File:OWB-downloadmanager.png|Download manager
File:OWB-cookiemanager.png|Cookie manager
File:OWB-contentblocking.png|Content blocking
See also
=Other web browsers for MorphOS/AmigaOS=
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080502200402/http://www.amigaweb.net/index.php?function=view_news&id=962 Infos about OWB for Classic AmigaOS at Amigaweb.net]
- [https://github.com/deadwood-pl/OdysseyWebBrowser AROS port at GitHub]
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Category:Discontinued web browsers