Voyager is a discontinued
web browser
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for the
Amiga range of computers, developed by
VaporWare
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.
Voyager supports
HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaSc ...
3.2 and some HTML 4,
JavaScript
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, frames,
SSL,
Flash
Flash, flashes, or FLASH may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional aliases
* Flash (DC Comics character), several DC Comics superheroes with super speed:
** Flash (Barry Allen)
** Flash (Jay Garrick)
** Wally West, the first Kid F ...
, and various other
Internet Explorer
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and
Netscape Navigator
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features.
Voyager is also available for the
MorphOS
MorphOS is an AmigaOS-like computer operating system (OS). It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC (PPC) processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale dev ...
and
CaOS operating systems.
Voyager 3
In May 1999 Oliver Wagner of VaporWare gave details of the upcoming Voyager 3 to
Amiga Format
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, with planned new features including support for
JavaScript
JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior, of ...
,
DOM (based on
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Windows line of operating systems ( ...
's model), and
CSS.
Voyager 3 was generally well-received, with Amiga Format praising its fast JavaScript execution and rapid table layout, but criticising its 'virtually unusable' print function and out-of-date documentation.
[Richard Drummond, "Voyager3", ''Amiga Format'', March 2000 (issue 134), 38]
See also
*
AMosaic
*
AWeb
*
IBrowse
*
OWB
References
External links
Official Website
Web browsers for AmigaOS
1996 software
MorphOS software
Discontinued web browsers
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