Editing ViolaWWW (section)

{{Short description|Popular web browser in the early 1990s}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = ViolaWWW
| logo                   =
| screenshot             = ViolaWWW.png
| caption                = ViolaWWW 3.3
| developer              = [[Pei-Yuan Wei]]<ref name="faq">{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#browser |title=What were the first WWW browsers? |publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]] |author=Tim Berners-Lee |author-link=Tim Berners-Lee |access-date=2010-06-15}}</ref>
| released               = {{Start date and age|1992|03|09}}<ref name="about"/>
| discontinued           = yes
| programming language   = Viola<ref name="faq"/><ref>See [http://www.viola.org/viola/book/toc.html Viola in a Nutshell] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909144946/http://www.viola.org/viola/book/toc.html |date=2019-09-09 }} for details.</ref>
| operating system       = [[Unix]]<ref name="faq"/>
| language               = English
| genre                  = [[Web browser]]
| license                =
| website                = {{URL|viola.org}}
}}
'''ViolaWWW''' is a discontinued [[web browser]], the first to support [[Scripting language|scripting]] and [[Style sheet (web development)|stylesheets]] for the [[World Wide Web]] (WWW). It was first released in 1991/1992 for [[Unix]] and acted as the recommended browser at [[CERN]],<ref name="faq"/> where the WWW was invented, but eventually lost its position as most frequently used browser to [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]].