ICab
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iCab 4.0 under Mac OS X 10.4.11
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| Developer(s) | Alexander Clauss |
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| Initial release | February 17, 1999 |
| Stable release | 5.8.1 (March 2, 2017) |
| Preview release | none (n/a) |
| Operating system |
macOS, iOS (active), Classic Mac OS 7.5–9.2.2 (discontinued) |
| Available in | English, German, French, Danish, Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Chinese and Japanese |
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Web browser Feed reader |
| License | Shareware |
| Website | icab |
iCab is a web browser for Mac OS by Alexander Clauss, derived from Crystal Atari Browser (CAB) for Atari TOS compatible computers. It was one of the few browsers still updated for the classic Mac OS prior to that version being discontinued after version 3.0.5 in 2008; today Classilla is the only browser still maintained for that OS.
The downloadable product is fully functional, but is nagware—periodically displaying a dialog box asking the user to register the product, and upgrade to the "Pro" version.
iCab 2.9.9 supports both 68k and PowerPC Macintosh systems running System 7.5 through Mac OS 9.2.2. While no longer maintained, iCab 2.9.9 is still available for download and registration.
iCab 2.9.8 runs natively on early versions of Mac OS X, but Mac OS X compatible versions of iCab 2.x are no longer officially available for download.
iCab 3.x can run on PowerPC systems running Mac OS 8.5 through Mac OS 9.2.2, or PowerPC or Intel systems running Mac OS X 10.1 or later. iCab 3 was last updated in January 2008.
iCab 4 was rewritten to use the Cocoa API and the WebKit rendering engine. It can run on PowerPC or Intel systems running Mac OS 10.3.9 or later.
iCab 5 was released on June 12, 2012. It runs on Mac OS 10.5 or later.
iCab's original rendering engine was often criticized for not supporting CSS and DOM. iCab 3 introduced improved rendering capabilities, including support for CSS2 and Unicode (via the ATSUI toolkit). iCab 4 switched to WebKit for its rendering engine, giving it the same rendering abilities as Apple's Safari browser.
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