It's really time for Apple branded browser

satchmo

I've suggested this in the past but it seems just so logical today. With Microsoft's seemingly decision to distance itself from Apple, it can only mean worse browser offerings of IE.



With all the iApps and .Mac initiatives, how difficult would it be for Apple to buy out Mozilla or some startup and tweek it so internet browsing on the Mac would scream.



The majority of new computer purchasers are looking use the internet. How can Apple suggest users to switch to Macs if the most common app will run significantly slower than a PC?

ghost_user_name

Ick. No. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />



There are already enough half-arsed, half-incomplete browsers for Mac. We don't need ANOTHER. Plus, web designers aren't going to want to have to worry about another browser that they'll have to test their code with to be sure it's compatible.



Buy out Mozilla? An open source project with thousands of monkeys across the world working on it? Yeah. Right.



Oh, and there's already a similar thread about this here: <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=001421"; target="_blank">Apple to release 'iBrowse' (?)</a>

ghost_user_name

Yeah. there aer enough browsers...



IE only to see how it looks in IE .. well it's not SO bad



Opera and Mozilla of course..



iCab <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> and they thought to commercialise it .. omniweb.. well, just choose some browsers that you like and use them depending on what u browse..

chych

Well isn't the guy who created Chimera working for Apple now?

pscates

But maybe if Apple did it, it would be half-assed and incomplete?



They might build it, from the ground up, to work absolutely the best with the OS and all.



I don't know...I'm not a software guy.

spart

The way I see it, the only situations for Apple releasing a browser are as follows:

• Apple buys OmniGroup and uses OmniWeb as a starting point for development (maybe even rewriting some of it.)


• Apple makes a nice, fast, and free browser, but a little lacking in some of the more advanced features that OmniWeb has so as not to p*** off OmniGroup.

Actually, I would like to see a brushed metal browser. I think it might look nice, Sherlock seems to pull it off quite well (even if almost every other app doesn't, bar iTunes and QuickTime.)



It would probably have a nifty icon as well



<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />

nebagakid

I think Apple should buy OmniGroup but keep them as the OmniGroup and allow them to continue doing their work, but at least Apple owns a great group of coders and designers <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />

eman

If Apple were to make a browser from a current one I'd want them to use Chimera, not OmniWeb.

airsluf

giaguara

Not omniweb...



Something that works BETTER than IE and is NOT microsoft and that's enought!



Most of the alternative browsers i have tried show the javas and other stuff on the way to give headache..

stupider...likeafox

Why all the omniweb bashing?



I regularly use Omniweb, Chimera, Mozilla, Fizzilla, links, lynx and IE and yet Omniweb has always been my default.



Now, all of these browsers have serious problems but for Omniweb I can only see two.



It is slow and it is not standards compliant.



Have I missed anything? I don't think so.



Omni, who get props from everyone for being top class coders and all-round good guys, have publicly stated that these are the two issues that they are taking care of for v5 by rewriting a ton of layout code.



I feel confident in stating that Omniweb 5.0 will beat Chimera 1.0 for speed and be a comfier ride into the bargain. I just hope they don't get too bogged down implemening tabbed browsing but I know I'll be buying it regardless.

artman @_@

Omni Group buy out...maybe.



But I agree with others that there are enough wannabe browsers out there and web designers have enough to deal with. Anyways, I'd expect that Sherlock's new searching and browsing features have brought it to a new level beyond the browser and will advance to something even better...finding what you need via the Internet without needing a browser.



Also, I have been trying out Mozilla and love it. It's fast, versatile and skinable. Just upgraded to 1.1 and the installation was a breeze. I mainly use IE but when friends come over I open Mozilla with that cool yellow/red/and black skin on it...they go "Oooooooooo!" :eek:

matsu

So Apple is already very close to having all the browser components in house?



Interesting.



Browsers are good, but perhaps they are in need of a new paradigm. Sherlock looks like a good start, I wonder what else they could do with it.

ghost_user_name

guys..



i hate to close this after so much discussion has occurred...



however, there's an ongoing thread in software about this... and it's in the right forum...





<a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=001421"; target="_blank">http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=001421</a>;





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