MacWWW
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Through Web browser and Operating system
The browser is no longer available from its original ftp location, but can still be downloaded from mirrors.
History
It was written at CERN by Robert Cailliau and later Nicola Pellow helped with the development. Pellow worked originally on the Line Mode Browser and both browsers shared some parts of the source code after her switching. Pre-alpha version were available, but this version worked only on "coliur [sic] mac but not on big black and white ones it seems."
Version 1.00 was released on 12 May 1993 with the commentary: "We know there is much to be improved, but it works well on system 7 and system 6.0.5".
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Features
The MacWWW which was a minimalist browser displayed only text, no images nor lists.
- Implemented in THINK C using its human interface objects.
- Uses much code in common with the Line Mode browser. This code later became libwww.
- bookmarks
- For the hypertext object, the THINK C text object was modified to allow multifont capability, and to allow anchors to be encoded in the styles.
According to critics, within a year the browser became obsolete because Mosaic and MacWeb had much more features, for example MacWWW showed no loading status. Without the mouse and MacOS support MacWWW would be a text-mode browser.