Origyn Web Browser (OWB) is a discontinued web browser that was synchronized with

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and sponsored by the technology company Pleyo. OWB provides a meta-port to an abstract platform with the aim of making porting to embedded or lightweight systems faster and easier. This port is used for embedded devices such as set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics. OWB has also found popularity on the

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-like operating systems. Current versions include

, AROS and

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 ...

official ports. When Sand-labs disappeared, MorphOS developer Fabien Coeurjoly took over and eventually renamed project to Odyssey Web Browser when it did not have any original Sand-labs code left.

History

OWB was created by Pleyo, a French software firm located in Montpellier, France in 2006.

Versions

Milestone versions of Origyn Web Browser: *Robespierre – November 22, 2007 *Blastoise – July 1, 2008 *DoDuo – July 1, 2008 *Galekid – December 19, 2008 *Galegon – February 11, 2009 *Galeking – June 4, 2009 *Pukapuka – October 8, 2009 Announced: *Pukarua – unreleased

Features

OWB is a web browser optimized for

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(CE) devices and

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, such as

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s, portable media players, set-top boxes (STB) and TV decoders, and various other consumer electronic products such as

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, home-gateways, Web-radios, digital video recorder (PVR),

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devices, etc. OWB is based on Webkit by Apple, and its ease of porting is based upon a ''browser abstraction layer'' called OWBAL. The existence of this abstraction layer architecture dramatically eases the task of integrating OWB in CE devices, resulting in 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 browser and its full set of dependencies. OWBAL abstraction is based on interfaces, which are described through abstract classes, and these classes contain only pure virtual methods. No default implementation is allowed.

General characteristics

OWB supports full

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(CSS) 2.1, CSS3 support, styleable form controls, enhanced rich text editing, XML technologies,

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(

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port), SVG (partial SVG 1.1 full) (GTK port, Qt port and Amiga port), XSLT processor,

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API for XSLT, MathML, notifications, SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX) on x86,

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. OWB features Netscape-style (NPAPI) plug-ins (GTK and MorphOS ports) including support for

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, Adobe Flash Player and DiamondX. The browser can pass

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test with a 100% evaluation on all ports and Acid3 test with a 99% evaluation on SDL port and a 100% evaluation on ports for GTK, Qt, Amiga, and MorphOS. It features also accessibility support and support for cross document messaging, databases, datagrid, dom storage, filtera, geolocation, icon database, offline web application,

server-sent events Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a server push technology enabling a client to receive automatic updates from a server via an HTTP connection, and describes how servers can initiate data transmission towards clients once an initial client connection has ...

, sharedWorker video/audio, WebSockets, Worker and 3D support. Platform graphics engines include GTK, Qt, SDL,

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with Magic User Interface and Win32 (not yet public). The font engine used is Freetype. OWB is also POSIX compliant. Origyn can handle threads (with Pthreads) and supports GTK, Qt and uClibc.

Odyssey Web Browser

Odyssey Web Browser is probably the most mature of the Amiga and Amigalike-OS ports, as it has a download manager and much of the other UI features of a modern browser already separately added by its developer. Version 1.6 (December 2009) sports Adobe Flash SWF player plug-in based on Swfdec, version 1.6.1 has been integrated with web profiling and debugging tool called Webinspector. Since version 1.7 (March 2010), Odyssey supports also

tags and media content through

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. MorphOS release of OWB is also distributed in a ''Lite'' version for the minimal computer motherboard

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Screenshots

The following are several screenshots showing the various features of OWB. File:Owb-inspector-profiler.png, Profiler File:Owb-inspector-elements.png, Elements inspector File:Owb-inspector-debug.png, Debugger File:OWB-inspector-audit.png, Auditor File:Owb-scriptmanager.png , Script manager File:OWB-downloadmanager.png, Download manager File:OWB-cookiemanager.png, Cookie manager File:OWB-contentblocking.png, Content blocking

References

External links

Infos about OWB for Classic AmigaOS at Amigaweb.net

AROS port at GitHub
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