MacWeb
Template:Infobox Software MacWeb is an early, now discontinued classic Mac OS-only web browser for 68k and PowerPC Apple Macintosh computers, developed by TradeWave (formerly EINet) between 1994 and 1996.<ref name="wwwunleashed">Template:Cite book</ref>
MacWeb's major attraction was its ability to run well on low-end hardware footprints as well as fast page display. This compactness led to MacWeb's inclusion on many "Internet starter kit" floppy disks and CD-ROMs that were popular at the time. TradeWave also developed a similar Microsoft Windows browser named WinWeb. However, they were eclipsed by more full-featured competitors such as Netscape Navigator, and development was eventually abandoned.
VersionsEdit
The first public release was 0.98-alpha on May 31, 1994, and the final official release was version 2.0 in 1996. An unofficial patch "2.0c" was released by Antoine Hébert in 1998 to correct a problem on old machines not supporting color QuickDraw.
Although one author in 1995 called MacWeb the second web browser released for the Macintosh,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> this is not quite true. The text-only MacWWW browser became available in 1992, with the graphical Mosaic released for the Mac the next year.
FeaturesEdit
MacWeb was a basic browser that contained features common to most browsers such as:
- support for HTML forms<ref name="wwwunleashed" />
- bookmarks with import tool for Mosaic's bookmarks<ref name="wwwunleashed" />
- a HTML viewer<ref name="wwwunleashed" />
MacWeb pioneered the "click and hold" gesture to display a popup contextual menu. This mouse gesture was commonly used on the Macintosh before the prevalence of two-button mice on the Mac platform.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> MacWeb's preferences dialog allowed users to customize display styles on a per-tag basis similar to Cascading style sheets<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
System requirementsEdit
MacWeb has the following system requirements:
- Operating system: Classic Mac OS<ref name="wwwunleashed" />
- RAM: less than 700 KB RAM<ref name="wwwunleashed" />
- HDD: 680 KB
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
External linksEdit
- MacWeb archive on evolt.org