Shiira is a web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira is "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Its Japanese designers crafted Shiira to use WebKit for rendering and scripting. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 579 pixelsFull resolution (1022 × 740 pixel, file size: 329 KB, MIME type: image/png) Screenshot of Shiira 2. ... In software engineering, software maintenance is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... is the 197th day of the year (198th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. ... WebKit is an application framework included with Mac OS X v10. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Scripting languages (commonly called scripting programming languages or script languages) are computer programming languages that are typically interpreted and can be typed directly from a keyboard. ...

Shiira is open source, and its source code is released under the BSD license. The current version requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. The project is led by Makoto Kinoshita. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ...

Features and performance

Since the browser is being developed with Safari in mind, the main characteristics of the two browsers are similar. For example, Shiira employs private browsing options to automatically delete history and cookies when selected. However, Shiira has enhanced many features of Safari to give Shiira its own feel. The search engines search field on the toolbar includes many search engines and is fully customizable, and tabbed browsing is very flexible, enabling users to, for example, reorder tabs by dragging, or select an option to refresh tabs when they are clicked. Shiira also takes advantage of Cocoa programming to provide users with a customizable drawer extending from the left or right of the window. The drawer contains bookmarks (which launch based on a user-programmed preference of one or two clicks), history, downloads (to avoid cluttering the screen with additional download windows), a unique page holder to access myriad links while surfing other sites, and an RSS reader. In version 2.0 , the sidebar was replaced by a series of palletes opened and closed from the main window toolbar. Shiira natively supports in-browser PDF viewing. The browser is of comparable stability and speed to Safari, making it among the fastest and most functional browsers for users of Mac OS X. The success of the Google search engine was mainly due to its powerful PageRank algorithm and its simple, easy-to-use interface. ... In graphical user interfaces in computer applications, a tabbed document interface (TDI) is one that relies on tabbed panes to hold child windows. ... Cocoa is Apple Computers native object-oriented application programming environment for the Mac OS X operating system. ... For RSS feeds from Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Syndication. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...

Style

Among the appealing features of Shiira are abundant appearance options. Users may opt to switch between Aqua or Metal styles in addition to changing the button's appearances. However, in the current 2.0 release, changes in themes are, as yet, not available. Tabs are customizable both in appearance and in the choice of which tab comes to the fore of the screen after closing a tab. Add-on icon sets come packaged with the initial download. Another visually attractive option is "Tab Exposé", which acts much like the Exposé feature of Mac OS X; each tab is visible in its totality, enabling users to select the tab to which they wish to navigate with ease. The 1.x releases of Shiira also have a page-turning effect for transitions between any two webpages, however this was dropped from 2.x releases. The new interface in Shiira 2.0 can be set to display tabs as thumbnails along the bottom of the screen. Mac OS X 10. ... Mac OS X 10. ...

See also

• List of web browsers
• Comparison of web browsers

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External links

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