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Odyssey Web Browser

    Odyssey Web Browser is a WebKit-based browser developed by Fabien Coeurjoly and it is originally based on the Origyn Web Browser core from Sand-Labs/Pleyo, however since then it has been extensively developed to become a full-blown desktop MUI browser with modern functionality.

The original Origyn Web Browser project was a web browser core optimized for consumer electronics (CE) devices and embedded system such as mobile phones, portable media players, set-top boxes (STB), 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 Inc. and its ease of porting is possible upon a pratical browser abstraction layer called OWBAL (OWB Abstraction Layer), the existence of this abstraction layer architecture dramatically eases the task of integrating OWB on any CE devices resulting in a 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 entire project with its full set of dependencies.

It support full Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) 2.1, CSS3, 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.

Origyn Web Browser is also support Netscape-style (NPAPI) plugins including support for MPlayer, Adobe Flash Player or DiamondX and is able to pass Acid2 and Acid3 test with a 100% evaluation on all ports. It features also accessibility and include support for any type of cross document messaging, databases, datagrid, DOM storage, filters, geolocation, icon database, offline web application, server-sent events, Shared Worker video/audio, WebSockets, Worker and 3D.

Current Odyssey Web Browser release will also score more than 300 points at html5test.com website. (with some disabled features like WebGL, Geolocalisation or workers) Platform graphics engines currently include GTK, QT, SDL, Cairo, but also Magic User Interface (MUI) and ReAction under the Amiga like platform.

Here are the key features of Odyssey Web Browser for MorphOS, AmigaOS4 and AROS:
  • Based on r183664 WebKit (May 2015)
  • Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL, ...
  • HTML5 Video/Audio support (Ogg/Theora, WEBM, MPEG4/H264, MP3, AAC, WAV..)
  • Antialiased fonts and kerning, font families and support for international charsets
  • MUI or Zune Interface
  • Just-In-Time compilation (JIT) JavaScript support
  • Cairo technology !!1
  • Multiple tabs and windows
  • Download manager with resume and history support
  • Password manager
  • Cookie manager
  • Messages console
  • Network connections manager
  • Proxy support
  • Session support
  • Form filling completion
  • Locale support
  • Bookmarks
  • Fastlinks
  • Configurable MIME types
  • History
  • Content blocking
  • URL Completion
  • Favicon support
  • Private Browsing
  • Per URL settings
  • Configurable contextual menus
  • Configurable search engines
  • Contextual cursors
  • Drag and Drop support
  • Clipboard support
  • Spell checking support
  • Fullscreen support
  • OpenURL/Rexx support
  • PDF export
  • Printing support
  • Plugin support (MorphOS only)
  • WebInspector (FireBug-like)
  • User scripting (GreaseMonkey-like)
  • No PayPal donation needed

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