ABrowse is a web browser for the AtheOS/Syllable operating system. Like Apple's Safari web browser, it uses a port of the KHTML layout engine. ABrowse's inception and port of KHTML were performed by Kurt Skauen, who also created AtheOS. Web browser shortcuts on an Apple computer A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ... AtheOS was a free Unix_like operating system for x86-based computers. ... Syllable is a free software hobby operating system for Intel x86 Pentium and compatible processors. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Computer, Inc. ... Konqueror using KHTML to render the Wikipedia front page. ... A layout engine, or rendering engine, is a software that takes web content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc) and displays the formatted content on the screen. ...

The port of KHTML communicates with the operating system's GUI's widget toolkit via a wrapper for the Qt toolkit. A graphical user interface (or GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ... In computer programming, widget toolkits (or GUI toolkits) are sets of basic building elements for graphical user interfaces. ... In computer programming, Qt is a cross-platform graphical widget toolkit for the development of GUI programs. ...

Because of difficulties with the amount of work required to maintain current ports of KHTML on the Syllable operating system, ABrowse's use of the KHTML layout engine may be dropped by the Syllable Internet Tools Team in favour of the more-portable Gecko layout engine. Gecko is the open source web browser layout engine used in all Mozilla-branded software and its derivatives, including later Netscape releases. ...

Current development is performed by the Syllable Internet Tools team.

See also

• List of web browsers
• Comparison of web browsers