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Post #1 by iMac600
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Post DateTue, 1 Jan 2008 - 13:44
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/icab-is-back.11236/
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http://www.icab.de/

Now up to version 4.0... and wow. It's a lot better. It's been completely rewritten in Cocoa and now supports tabbed browsing, plugin management, customizable user agents (including dynamic, eg. if a site needs IE it will identify itself as IE) and a lot more.

Unfortunately it no longer runs under classic Mac OS.

I took it for a run around YouTube and watched a few videos, then head off to the Acid2 test where it passed with flying colours. It even worked with the heavy level AJAX that MacHeist uses. I think iCab is back, while it isn't on the same level as some of the big contenders, it is definitely a contender back in the browser space.

It does make me wonder though, is this a seriously improved iCab rendering engine, or has it jumped ship to WebKit?

Screenshot

Be interesting to see just how iCab goes as we head into the future, particularly with the new "Web 2.0" standards we're seeing today.

EDIT: Alright, moved to software, if anyone actually reads down this far. :p

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