#Omniweb tucosn update
#Omniweb tucosn code

The only thing that OW now has an advantage over the other browsers are the site specific settings. Oh, just for the sake of it do something, anything better than all the other browsers, because you're really losing out here.

#Omniweb tucosn code

I've been pointing this out for years now and NOTHING has been done.Īlso make it so that the source code window uses the font it is set to and uses the encoding the browser has set.

#Omniweb tucosn update

I'd very much like OmniWeb to find better solutions for history/bookmark browsing, update their source view to friggin understand XHTML 1.1 strict for Christs sake. My first two requirements for modern Browsers are: Bookmarksynching (preferably via FTP, helloo Omingroup?!), ad blocking (which I have now found a final and system wide solution with Glimmer Blocker.

If OmniWeb would drop bookmark synching, I'd drop it like a hot potatoe. Do significant numbers of users use them? Maybe there are some things that can be cut to make it easier to maintain going forward. Some stuff I've used in the past like bookmark syncing and rss support I've given up on. This is controversial, but I think Omniweb has too many features. Cherry pick the best of the other browsers There are some things Safari got right, like an in-browser view for bookmarks and history, rather than separate windows. How can this be improved? One thought would be to snap a thumbnail of every page viewed so that history could be browsed visually. Omniweb's history is still like netscape 2.0's. OW now has site specific CSS files, so why not javascript? It would be great if greasemonkey scripts had a chance of running out of the box (obviously, Mozilla APIs couldn't be supported, but if they could hook in and run in the same way, then simple scripts might work out of the box. If an Omniweb 6 worthy of the name doesn't show up in the next year or two, I might have to move on.įor what it's worth, here's some of what I would like to see in a hypothetical Omniweb 6:

I'd go so far as to say that other browsers have caught up, but I still use Omniweb for its interface niceties and site-specific preferences. We've had a handful of new features since OW 5.0 was released four years ago, and numerous bug fixes and engine changes, but nothing at all like the interface and browsing improvements that OW5 brought over OW4. Omniweb development has been in maintenance mode for a long long time.