TkWWW
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| Developer(s) | Joseph Wang |
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| Initial release | 0.1 July 25, 1992 |
| Last release |
0.13 pre2 / 2 April 1995
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| Written in | Tcl/Tk |
| Platform | Same as Tcl/Tk |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Web browser and HTML editor |
| License | GPLv2 |
tkWWW was an early web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor written by Joseph Wang at MIT as part of Project Athena and the Globewide Network Academy project. The browser was based on the Tcl language and the Tk (toolkit) extension but did not achieve broad user-acceptance or market share, although it was included in many Linux distributions by default. Joseph Wang wanted tkWWW to become a replacement for r r n and to become a "swiss army knife" of networked computing.
Joseph Wang announced in July 1992 that he was developing a web browser based on Tk, and made the alpha version 0.1 publicly available.
Version 0.4 integrated a much easier installation procedure, a better default color scheme, keyboard traversals and a history mechanism. Version 0.5, released 8 February 1993, introduced support for multiple fonts.
Version 0.6 made personal annotations compatible with xmosaic and improved the GUI.
With the release of version 0.7 on 1 May 1993, tkWWW became the first WYSIWYG HTML editor for X11 which was originally written by Nathan Torkington. Another improvement was the ability to start in iconic mode.
Version 0.8 improved the graphical user interface (GUI) and added a "reload" option.
In version 0.9, the browser achieved beta status and added support for character-styling tags and for version 7.0 of Tcl, as well as partial support for image tags.
Version 0.11 worked successfully with RCS. Based on the newly released Tk 4.0, tkWWW 0.13 was an alpha release, in order to allow for wider testing. It also added full support for inline images.
Support for HTML+, a proposed successor to HTML 2, was implemented while the specification was being developed.
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