Gollum browser is a
web application
A web application (or web app) is application software that is accessed using a web browser. Web applications are delivered on the World Wide Web to users with an active network connection.
History
In earlier computing models like client-serv ...
for accessing the encyclopedia,
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...
. Gollum is no longer accessible online.
Gollum is designed to browse Wikipedia in an easier way than directly using the
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 o ...
.
Links external to Wikipedia are opened in the user's regular browser. Gollum is opened from a regular browser and makes a window that puts the Wikipedia search bar on the toolbar. Gollum was created by
Harald Hanek in 2005 using
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. ...
and
Ajax
Ajax may refer to:
Greek mythology and tragedy
* Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea
* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* ''Ajax'' (play), by the ancient Gree ...
.
According to one blogger, Gollum provides a way to bypass
censorship of Wikipedia in China.
Languages
Though the website is available only in English and German, Gollum's GUI is available in more than 32 languages
and can browse nearly 50 Wikipedia editions.
Gollum's GUI
* Arabic
* Indonesian
* Bulgarian
* Catalan
* Chinese
* Czech
* Danish
* German
* Estonian
* Greek
* English
* Spanish
* French
* Hebrew
* Croatian
* Italian
* Japanese
* Korean
* Luxembourgish
* Hungarian
* Dutch
* Norwegian
* Norwegian Nynorsk
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Romanian
* Russian
* Finnish
* Swedish
* Tagalog
Browsable Wikipedia editions
* Arabic
* Bulgarian
* Bosnian
* Catalan
* Chinese
* Croatian
* Czech
* Danish
* Dutch
* English
* Esperanto
* Estonian
* Finnish
* French
* German
* Greek
* Hebrew
* Hungarian
* Icelandic
* Indonesian
* Italian
* * Japanese
* Korean
* Kurdish
* Latin
* Luxembourgish
* Limburgan
* Low German
* Norwegian
* Norwegian Nynorsk
* Persian
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Pushto
* Romanian
* Russian
* Slovak
* Slovenian
* Serbian
* Serbo-Croatian
* Spanish
* Swedish
* Swiss German
* Tagalog
* Turkish
* Ukrainian
* Walloon
* Western Frisian
* Yiddish
See also
*
Site-specific browser
A site-specific browser (SSB) is a software application that is dedicated to accessing pages from a single source (site) on a computer network such as the Internet or a private intranet. SSBs typically simplify the more complex functions of a web ...
References
External links
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Ajax (programming)
Web applications
Web browsers