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Three versions are currently supported: one for Macs running 68000-series processors; one for Macs running the old Mac OS on PowerPC processors (see List of Macintosh models grouped by CPU); and a Carbon application for Mac OS X. All of these are available for free download, and at a later date a non-free 'Pro' version is planned for release. iCab is one of very few browsers being developed for Mac OS 9 and earlier. The Motorola 68000 is a CISC microprocessor, the first member of a successful family of microprocessors from Motorola, which were all mostly software compatible. ... Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a range of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers. ... PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... Apple Macintosh models grouped by CPU type. ... Carbon is the codename of Apple Computers APIs for the Macintosh operating system, which permits a good degree of backward compatibility between source code written to run on the classic Mac OS, and the newer Mac OS X. The APIs are published and accessed in the form of C... Mac OS X is the operating system which is included with all shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets. ... Mac OS 9 was the last version of what has since become known as the classic Macintosh Operating System (Mac OS), introduced by Apple Computer on October 23rd, 1999. ...

iCab's proprietary rendering engine has received criticism for having bad support for CSS and DOM, making it hard to design modern Web pages for the browser. However, in May 2005 the first public beta of the long-awaited iCab 3 was released with drastically updated layout capabilities (extremely good CSS2 support), although this version is not available for 680x0-Macs. The iCab 3 beta series also has proper Unicode support, using ATSUI instead of the old WorldScript(?) Text Encoding Converter; this is the reason for iCab 3 requiring Mac OS 8.5 or later. A web browsers layout engine takes content (HTML, XML, images, etc. ... In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... Dom or DOM may refer to any of the following: In preventive maintenance, it refers to Date of Manufacture, usually figured in months. ... The Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (ATSUI) is the Mac OS set of services for rendering Unicode-encoded text. ... WorldScript - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

• Developer: iCab Company
• License: Proprietary (freeware; a $29 or €29 Pro version will also be available)
• Operating systems: Mac OS X, Mac OS back to 7.0.1 (PowerPC and 68000-series)

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Features

One interesting feature of iCab is the iCab-Smiley. Depending on the validity of the HTML of the web site currently viewed, it will smile or look grim. Clicking on the smiley will bring up a list of errors in the page, if there are any. Shift-click the smiley to activate an easter egg. The smiley has gone through many incarnations over the years, but it consistently retains the same features. ... In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ... A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, or computer program. ...

iCab also boasts the following features:

• tabbed browsing
• JavaScript and CSS2 support
• multiple language support, including Arabic on older Macs (cannot display UTF-16 pages)
• filtering: the Filter Manager allows for sophisticated filtering of images (e.g. ads), plugins, rendering and network settings, JavaScript, and cookies on a per-wildcard-URL basis for powerful control over how you see and use the Web
• kiosk mode: full screen display and access controls
• download manager: lets you start, stop, resume and review downloads and maintains a download history; it supports downloading a whole page or a site at once with flexible extension, file type, count and total size filters
• portable web archives: ability to save pages as a ZIP archive containing HTML and images
• passes the Acid2 test

In general it is a very intelligent and thoughtful piece of software, featuring a large amount of nice touches to make the browsing process easier and faster. For example, you can ask iCab to reload missing images on a page (instead of the reload the entire page), stop animated GIFs on the current page (or in general), switch off background audio on pages, and select which browser you wish iCab to pretend to be (for sites that won't accept iCab). An example of tabbed document interface, illustrated with Opera In the area of graphical user interfaces, a tabbed document interface (TDI) is one that relies on tabbed panes to hold child windows. ... JavaScript is an object-based scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ... In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... In computing, UTF-16 is a 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format, a character encoding form that provides a way to represent a series of abstract characters from Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 as a series of 16-bit words suitable for storage or transmission via data networks. ... The optimal result for Acid2. ...

Unlike other browsers, the history window shows columns for title, last access and URL (the last two are optional) and you can sort the window by any column; this makes finding sites you have been to much easier. Items can be deleted indivually or by selecting multiple items (cmd-click or drag to select). The Hotlist (favourites) supports automatic and manual checking for site updates and can show you which sites have changed since last visit.

The main cited reasons for loving iCab are a) its considerable power at letting the visitor control their view of the Web instead of the sites controlling them -- it is very much suited to nerds, geeks and power users -- and b) it is one of the only if not the only worthwhile browser on old Macintoshes.

See also

• List of web browsers
• Comparison of web browsers
• Comparison of layout engines

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External links

• iCab website