AMSD Ariadna is the first
Russia
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n
web browser
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ever developed. It was developed by ''Advanced Multimedia System Design'' (AMSD) in early 1994.
Development
To spread word of the
Internet
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in Russia, AMSD researched the web browser in 1994. It was released in 1995 and was ported to
Windows 95
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and
Windows NT
Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems sc ...
.
By the time of its introduction,
Internet Explorer
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and
Netscape Navigator, two no-cost browsers, were dominating the Russian browser market. Ariadna, however, wasn't free software and, despite its high quality, failed to make a stance in the market and was terminated a few years later.
[AMSD Ariadna History at AMSD.com](_blank)
Features
Being a pioneer browser, Ariadna has limited functionality compared to today's browsers. Some features include:
*
HTML
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3.2 support
*
PNG support, including transparency (but not as background images)
* Limited
Java
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support (only JDK 1.02)
*
E-mail and
text box
type=search
placeholder=An example text box, which can be used to search the English Wikipedia.
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support
* 50,000 word
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
-
Russian dictionary
AMSD Ariadna Home Page
* Data filter
Ariadna does not support animated GIF
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s or JavaScript
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.
See also
* Web browser
A web browser is application software for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used on ...
* History of the World Wide Web
* List of web browsers
The following is a list of web browsers that are notable.
Historical
Layout engines
* Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
** Goanna is a fork of Gecko developed by Moonchild Productions.
* Servo is an experimental web brow ...
References
External links
Ariadna Project Page
Chrome Themes Builder
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1995 software
Discontinued web browsers
Windows web browsers