ABrowse is a reature rich web browser based on the HTML parser and renderer used in Konqueror (KHTML). Except for a few features it support HTML4.0, HTTP forms, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Javascript. For more information about Konqueror take a look at http://www.konqueror.org/konq-browser.html.

Finally AtheOS have a high-quality graphical web browser. Up until V0.3.5 the only web browsers available for AtheOS was W3M and Lynx. Both terminal based text-only browsers. ABrowse is part of the base-installation in AtheOS V0.3.5 and above. Many thanks to the KHTML team at KDE for making such a great product. Special thanks to Dirk Mueller for his personal assistance when I got stucked. Porting KHTML to AtheOS was a joy.

For more information about the AtheOS operating system goto the official home-page http://www.atheos.cx/ or to some of the support sites.

Also take a look at the documentation that is incuded in the base install of AtheOS. The documentation is very slim so if you plan to programm for AtheOS it is a good idea to take a look at the API header files (look in the subdirectories of /ainc). Also looking at the sources of some of the utilities that comes with AtheOS will help you along. The sources can be downloaded from the download page at http://www.atheos.cx/

Please note that this is a very early version of ABrowse and not all features including security options like disabling of javascript and cookies are finished. Also the implementation of HTTP cookies are not 100% finished. The cookies are not saved to disk so they are not persistant between sessions and they are not shared between different instances of the browser (but they are shared between all windows opened by the same browser). Also the font support in ABrowse are still very limited. It will use the standard system font for everything and only change the font-size. If you happen to own the Arial font (from for example Windows) you are highly encouraged to install it under AtheOS. Both ABrowse and everything else in AtheOS will look a lot better if you do.

To install a new font just copy the font-file to "/system/fonts/" and click the "Rescan" button in the font preference panel.

Take a look here if you are interrested in reading more about the KHTML port.