OmniWeb is a veritable poster child for Mac OS X technologies and interface elements such as drawers, configurable toolbars, system-wide services for typography, spell checking, and so on. As I wrote almost three years ago in my Mac OS X 10.0 review: Version 4 was an impressive Mac OS X application. Previously unknown applications suddenly became award-winning examples for other Mac OS X developers to follow. The Omni Group moved wholesale to the Mac OS X platform after Apple purchased NeXT in 1996, porting and then substantially improving all of its products. Like The Omni Group itself, OmniWeb started its life on the NeXT platform, home of the world's first web browser. OmniWeb has a long and sporadically distinguished history. Enter The Omni Group and their near-mythical web browser, OmniWeb 5. This is rare, especially in an established application category like web browsers.Īs a lifetime Mac user and all-around technological sentimentalist, I tend to look to the underdog for software innovation. Like most web developers, I look upon every new addition to the web browser ecosystem with simultaneous hope and suspicion.Īs a user with a well documented obsession with usability and interface design, I am always looking for software that takes its interface one step beyond what has come before it.
After a decade or so of web development experience, the web browser is both my ally and my enemy. As faithful readers can attest, I am not among them. Some people have trouble getting excited about web browsers.
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