What: BrowseX
Where: http://BrowseX.com/
Description: Open source, cross-platform web browser written primarily
in Tcl. Comes bundled with Tml, a Tcl based HTML macro processor,
designed to simply and enhance web authoring. Also includes
database client support for Postgres, as well as a minor widget
collection known as Thin.
This code is free.
It is currently at release 1.6.0.
Updated: 09/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
Several users have mentioned how satisfying (fast, reliable, ...) BrowseX is.
See also Tml, which is the tcl based macro language that is a part of browsex.
BrowseX is based on tkhtml.
This is a great software! All it needs is some love and attention and a little spit and polish.
I originally became interested in it because it was written in Tcl. I came back a couple of months later (now) because it seems to have solved a major problem I face: keeping the gui alive while downloading on Win9x. It's faster than mozilla 0.94 on Win98.
If anyone else is interested in working on this software let me know, I'm currently hacking on the code trying to slim it down, fix a few bugs, and figure it out.
I'm trying to get it to build (the 1.6.0 "big" source download) on my SuSE 7.3 Linux system, which has 8.3 installed in /usr/lib. I do not want to install 8.4* in /usr/local for a number of reasons. Nor throw out a package which is deeply tied into the rest as RPM. The build failed in two places, both were reported to Peter recently:
After that, the build proceeds, but it looks like it's linking with 8.3 libs because of search order issues. As a result, Tk_PkgRequire fails as one of the first steps in main. Peter is busy (yet most helpful), so I'll just wait until some new suggestions come up. No rush.