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LimeiBook86
Aug 24, 2003, 04:30 PM
I was watching a .Mac how to video on Apple's page and they talked about Safari and IE and Netscape. While doing a demonstration of how to access your .Mac info on the web they used a very odd looking web browser. I took a snapshot, here: http://www.homepage.mac.com/ibook238/.Pictures/dotmac_browser.jpg
maybe this is a browser I don't know about, you take a look.
Any ideas?
MacsRgr8
Aug 24, 2003, 04:35 PM
? No idea....
Can't imagine Apple making another browser.... Safari isn't perfect, yet.
And making one for Windows... no way.
Doctor Q
Aug 24, 2003, 04:43 PM
I wonder how long ago the demonstation was made. Maybe it was a much earlier version of Safari.
mnkeybsness
Aug 24, 2003, 06:33 PM
looks like a proprietary browser for apple demonstrations.
applemacdude
Aug 24, 2003, 07:58 PM
I think I saw this once somewhere, dont remember where though..I dont think this is a earlier version of safari thouhj
Powerbook G5
Aug 24, 2003, 08:11 PM
It can't be--if you notice the webpage, wasn't that from the other month when Apple was trying to get people to re-subscribe to .Mac?
Doctor Q
Aug 24, 2003, 08:27 PM
Something else comes to mind. There was a programming article somewhere showing how simple it is to "make your own browser" using Apple's frameworks. In a few programming steps, it showed how to make a functional but crude-looking web browser. Maybe this was a quick-and-dirty web browser made using that framework, just for the purpose of making the .Mac demo.
FattyMembrane
Aug 24, 2003, 08:27 PM
they could have been doing a tech demo of how easy it is to include webcore and used the "no lines of code browser" trick. it depends on how old the shot is. can you give us a date on the movie LimeiBook?
tjwett
Aug 24, 2003, 09:29 PM
Originally posted by Doctor Q
Something else comes to mind. There was a programming article somewhere showing how simple it is to "make your own browser" using Apple's frameworks. In a few programming steps, it showed how to make a functional but crude-looking web browser. Maybe this was a quick-and-dirty web browser made using that framework, just for the purpose of making the .Mac demo.
i remember seeing an AppleScript Studio app once that was a no frills browser. i think it used a combo of Cocoa GUI and shell or perl or some other Terminal scripts. dont remember what it looked like though. this looks more like an in-house browser for testing and so on.
Flynnstone
Aug 24, 2003, 11:15 PM
At the WWDC they showed how to make a web browser very similar to that. It appeared to be a very functinal browser.
bobindashadows
Aug 24, 2003, 11:18 PM
I'm pretty sure that this is just an example of webcore neato-ness, like others have mentioned. I highly doubt that it's an über-l33t h4x0r browser that us lu53r scr1ptk1dd135 aren't allowed to play with.
Flynnstone
Aug 25, 2003, 12:31 AM
I think you can do it now in Jaguar with Xcode (or Project Builder). But I think you also need Safari 1.0 installed.
bobindashadows
Aug 25, 2003, 05:31 PM
Originally posted by Flynnstone
I think you can do it now in Jaguar with Xcode (or Project Builder). But I think you also need Safari 1.0 installed.
You have to download the WebKit framework, if I'm not mistaken.
LimeiBook86
Aug 25, 2003, 06:29 PM
Yeah well this has to be pretty recent, definetly after Safari 1.0, I know this because the game "Marble Blast" that is a vavliable through .Mac is fairly new. I know because I donwloaded it :-)
Well the browser looks pretty nice, I think Safari is better...:D
hayesk
Aug 28, 2003, 09:51 AM
It's definitely a quick Project Builder/XCode browser. That would take approximately 2 minutes to create. My friend showed me when he got back from WWDC.
Doctor Q
Aug 28, 2003, 11:06 PM
Just by coincidence, I was cleaning up old e-mail today and came across this URL I had saved in case I ever needed it. It's the one I was referring to above.
How To Make Your Own Web Browser on Mac OS X, In Ten Easy Steps (http://www.livejournal.com/users/foxmagic/238347.html)
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