Abaco is a discontinued

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for the Plan 9 operating system. It is a graphical web browser with support for inline images, tables and frames. It has a true

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inspired by

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's interface. It is a multi-threaded and modest-sized program.

History

, a web file system, and libhtml, a library to parse

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, were written at

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as the backend for a new web browser. After the Bell Labs project stalled, Aki Nyrhinen wrote a simple frontend for webfs and libhtml called

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which can render basic

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s and makes interesting use of the plumber to support

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. Work on webpage also stalled, and webpage has now been superseded by abaco. Abaco, written by Federico G. Benavento, supports most of the HTML 4.01 standard, including frames and tables.

References

External links

The Abaco website
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Abaco (Web Browser) Web browsers for Plan 9 Discontinued web browsers Free web browsers

History

See also

References

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