Wednesday, January 14, 2004

An article on The Register tells of a new "mega-browser" programmed by 17 year old Adnan Osmani winner of last year's Esat BT Young Scientist competition. The performance is apparently significantly fast has included direct access to 120 search engines and incorporated five different media players for sound and video, as well as DVD functions and a talking guide named Phoebe. Osmani said he has since added 30 more audio and video features to the software, which is, wait for it, based on Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Shame, why didn't he model it on a decent browser?! Also there are no mentions of support for web standards. The browser is set for commercial release in the next 6 months.

Jon 1:16 PM Permalink