Shiira
From Applepedia
| Shiira | |
|---|---|
| |
| Min/Max OS Support | OS_X |
| License | BSD |
| Category | Internet |
| Installer | No |
| PowerPC Traitor | {{{universal}}} |
| Website | Shiira Home Page |
Shiiira is a web browser using the WebKit rendering engine (also used in the Safari web browser). It is currently developed by the Happy Macintosh Development Time (HMDT). For Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) users, there is a "Shiira mini" dashboard widget (see the Shiira webpage for details).
Shiira's Stable Release
Currently, Shiira has a stable release (1.2) released in the first quarter of 2006. In the 1.2 release Shiira holds many features differing to Safari - a major feature being the ability to switch between the classic "Aqua" interface first inhereted with the Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) release and the "Brushed Metal" interface that can be found in Safari. It is unknown if a "Unified" interface will be available in future versions of Shiira, but with the upcoming release of Shiira 2, more information can be gathered.
Other Features not found in Safari
Aside from the ability of being able to change interfaces, Shiira holds other features that differ from the Safari web browser. For all of the digg, news and other shitfest news sites that lardarses like, Shiira gives user the capability of reading RSS feeds. Unlike the cluttered Gecko (Mozilla rendering engine) based browser Flock, RSS news pages are displayed neatly and presented well. However, as of Safari 2 RSS features have been added. One small problem, however: Safari 2 is for Mac OS X 10.4 users only, so people using older Mac OS X versions will have to stick with Shiira for RSS capability. Finally, in the handy "search" box located next to the URL bar, users can switch between many different search engines, much like the Firefox feature. Shiira doesn't have just these features differing from Safari, so you'll have to download the browser yourself and see what other nifty things their are. Don't like it? Get another web browser, you cranky bitch!
Kalleboo's modified version
Shiira has one major flaw: It defaults to japanese text encoding, and changing the default to anything else won't stick. To solve this, use User:Kalleboo's modified version, that defaults to ISO-Latin-1: [1]
