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| Camino | |
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 Camino 2.1 under Mac OS X 10.7 Lion | |
| Developer | The Camino Project |
| Initial release | February 13, 2002; 23 years ago (2002-02-13) |
| Final release | |
| Written in | Objective-CCocoa |
| Operating system | macOS |
| Available in | Multilingual[which?] |
| Type | Web browser Feed reader |
| License | MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 tri-license |
| Website | caminobrowser |
Camino (from theSpanish wordcamino meaning "path") is a discontinuedfree,open source,GUI-basedWeb browser based onMozilla'sGeckolayout engine and specifically designed for theOS Xoperating system. In place of anXUL-based user interface used by most Mozilla-based applications, Camino used Mac-nativeCocoaAPIs. On May 30, 2013, the Camino Project announced that the browser is no longer being developed.[2]
As Camino's aim was to integrate as well as possible with OS X, it used theAqua user interface and integrated a number of OS X services and features such as theKeychain for password management andBonjour for scanning available bookmarks across the local network. Other notable features included an integratedpop-up blocker andad blocker, andtabbed browsing that included an overview feature allowing tabs to be viewed all at once as pages.[3][4]
The browser was developed by the Camino Project, a community organization.Mike Pinkerton had been the technical lead of the Camino project sinceDave Hyatt moved to theSafari team atApple Inc. in mid-2002.
| Version | Date |
|---|---|
| 0.1 | February 13, 2002 |
| 0.2 | April 6, 2002 |
| 0.4 | July 24, 2002 |
| 0.5 | September 9, 2002 |
| 0.6 | November 5, 2002 |
| 0.7 | March 6, 2003 |
| 0.8 | June 25, 2004 |
| 1.0 | February 14, 2006 |
| 1.5 | June 5, 2007 |
| 1.6 | April 17, 2008 |
| 2.0 | November 18, 2009 |
| 2.0.7 | March 22, 2011 |
| 2.0.8 | September 9, 2011 |
| 2.0.9 | September 14, 2011 |
| 2.1 | November 29, 2011 |
In late 2001,Mike Pinkerton andVidur Apparao started a project withinNetscape to prove that Gecko could be embedded in a Cocoa application. In early 2002Dave Hyatt, one of the co-creators ofFirefox (then calledPhoenix), joined the team and built Chimera, a small, lightweight browserwrapper, around their work.[6] "Chimera" is a mythological beast with parts taken from various animals and as the new browser represented an early example of Carbon/C++ code interacting with Cocoa/Objective-C code, the name must have seemed apt.
The first downloadable build of Chimera 0.1 was released on February 13, 2002. The early releases became popular due to their fast page-loading speeds (as compared with then-dominant Mac browser,Microsoft'sInternet Explorer version 5 orOmniGroup'sOmniWeb, which then used theCocoa text system as itsrendering engine).
Hyatt was hired by Apple Computer in mid-2002 to start work on what would becomeSafari. Meanwhile, the Chimera developers got a small team together within Netscape, with dedicated development andQA, to put together a Netscape-branded technology preview for the January 2003Macworld Conference. However, two days before the show,AOL management decided to abandon the entire project. Despite this setback, a skeleton crew of QA and developers released Camino 0.7 on March 3, 2003.[6]
The name was changed from Chimera to Camino for legal reasons. Because of its roots inGreek mythology,Chimera has been a popular choice of name forhypermedia systems.[citation needed] One of the first graphical web browsers was called Chimera,[7] and researchers at theUniversity of California, Irvine, have also developed a complete hypermedia system of the same name.[8]Camino isSpanish for "path" or "road" (as inEl Camino Real, aka the Royal Road), and the name was chosen to continue the "Navigator" motif.[6][9]
While version 0.7 was primarily a Netscape-driven release kept afloat at the end byopen source, version 0.8 was, according to lead developer Pinkerton, "a triumph of open source and open process. People from all around the world helped with patches, QA, bug triage, localization, artwork, and evangelism."[6]
In March 2005, Camino's Web site was moved from theMozilla Foundation's domainmozilla.org to the Camino Project's domaincaminobrowser.org.[10]
In September 2005, Pinkerton accepted a position atGoogle where he worked closely with Google's Firefox team and continued to work on Camino during his"twenty percent" time.
Camino 1.0, released on February 14, 2006, was the first browser of the Mozilla family to appear as auniversal binary, thanks largely to the efforts ofMark Mentovai, another of the Camino developers.
Camino 2.0, released on November 18, 2009, introduced many new interface features to the browser including movable tabs and tab preview. It was the first Camino release to beAcid2-compliant.[11]
With the release of Camino 2.1 in 2011, the developers announced plans to transition toWebKit for future versions, as Mozilla had dropped support for Gecko embedding.[12]
The final release was 2.1.2 released on March 14, 2012.[13]
On May 30, 2013, Stuart Morgan announced on Camino Blog that Camino had reached its end and was no longer being developed.[14]
Camino 2.0, released on November 18, 2009, introduced many new interface features to the browser including moveable tabs and tab preview. It was the first Camino release to beAcid2-compliant.
The final release (2.1.2) scores a 99/100 on the Acid3 test.
Camino's HTML5 support via theHTML5test standards testbed is limited.
Camino 2.1.2 is available in the following languages:
| OS X version | Latest version | Gecko release |
|---|---|---|
| v10.1 | 0.8.5 | 1.7.6[15] |
| v10.2.8 | 1.0.6 | 1.8.0.13[16] |
| v10.3.0 | 1.5.5 | 1.8.1.12[17] |
| v10.3.9 | 1.6.11 | 1.8.1.24[18] |
| v10.4 | 2.1.2 | 1.9.2.28[19] |
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