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IBM WebExplorer is an early, now discontinued, web browser designed at IBM facilities in the Research Triangle Park for OS/2.

History

Presented in 1994 with OS/2 Warp (v3), it was hailed as the best browser by Internet Magazine in their November issue and leveraged its position as the only native browser in OS/2 at that time. It was a "coming attraction" in The HTML Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to HTML. Almost immediately after the introduction of OS/2 Warp version 3, IBM dismantled the development team and that relegated the WebExplorer to the annals of history.{{Citation needed|date=May 2015}} OS/2 Warp 4 (1996) included it, but also included a link to download an OS/2 version of Netscape Navigator 2.02, which was late for shipping on CD. IBM had already planned the substitution of WebExplorer.{{Citation needed|date=May 2015}}

A 1996 review in PC Mag found that WebExplorer "lack[ed] several standard features" and wasn't very strong in terms of multimedia support. The IBM browser shipping with the IBM Internet Connection suite, WebExplorer Mosaic, was based on the Spyglass Mosaic code base and was found by the reviewer to be "far superior" to the OS/2 version, which was developed solely by IBM.^[2]

Features

Version history

Version

Date

New features

Systems

1.0

1995|1|06}}

Customized Animations

OS/2 2.1, OS/2 Warp

1.01

1995|4|05}}

OS/2 2.1, OS/2 Warp

1.02

1995|6|28}}

Drag and Drop Support

Color Palette Management

OS/2 Warp

1.03

1995|9|28}}

Newsgroup Manager

HTML Extensions

OS/2 Warp

1.1a

1996|3|22}}

OS/2 Warp

1.1b

1996}}

OS/2 Warp

1.1c

1996|6|06}}

OS/2 Warp

1.1d

1996|6|14}}

OS/2 Warp

1.1e

1996|7|11}}

OS/2 Warp

1.1f

1996|9|13}}

Option "No Proxy For"

OS/2 Warp

1.1g

1996|11|07}}

OS/2 Warp

1.1h

1996|12|11}}

OS/2 Warp

1.2

1996}}

OS/2 Warp Version 4

There were severals builds released by IBM. IBM released some beta builds and also fixed many bugs in WebExplorer, one beta including support for Java.

Criticism

The browser doesn't support Frames and the installation of plugins like Java was complicated.^[10]

References

1. ^IBM Cruises onto Internet with Security Products & WWW Software SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT HPCwire
2. ^{{cite newspaper |first1=Rick |last1=Ayre |first2=Thomas |last2=Mace |title=Just Browsing |newspaper=PC Mag |date=12 March 1996 |publisher=Ziff Davis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9rGvyMX6n8cC&pg=RA1-PA142}}
3. ^¹²³Read me file of the Web Explorer 1.1h.
4. ^Under the Scope section. EDM/2 June 1996,Volume 4 Issue 5
5. ^WebNav 2.0 added user interface enhancements on WebExplorer rendering.
6. ^{{cite web|title=hobbes.nmsu.edu |url=http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/multimedia/video/webexani |publisher=hobbes.nmsu.edu |accessdate=April 20, 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705094652/http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=%2Fpub%2Fmultimedia%2Fvideo%2Fwebexani |archivedate=July 5, 2007 |deadurl=yes |df=mdy-all }}
7. ^{{cite web|last=Amstadt |first=Steve |title=Browser Watch – IBM OS/2 Webexplorer News! |url=http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/ibm9.html |accessdate=July 8, 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19990209192948/http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/ibm9.html |archivedate=February 9, 1999 |date=December 3, 1996 |deadurl=yes |df=mdy-all }}
8. ^{{cite web|title=Designing Web Animation|url=http://podgoretsky.com/ftp/Docs/Internet/pdf/Designing%20Web%20Animation.pdf|publisher=New Riders Publishing|accessdate=July 8, 2010|author=Nicola Brown|author2=Peter Chen |author3=David Miller |author4=Paul Van Eyk |author5=William E. Weinman |year=1996}}
9. ^{{cite news|title=Internet Access Tools|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yurvRCerf_UC&pg=PA168|accessdate=Mar 8, 2018|work=PC Mag|issue=v.14 n.7|publisher=Ziff Davis|date=Oct 10, 1995}}
10. ^{{cite web|last=Watson|first=Dave|title=A Quick Look at Web Explorer|url=http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/webexplorer.html|publisher=The Southern California OS/2 User Group|accessdate=August 16, 2010|date=July 21, 2001}}

External links

{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990116230210/http://www.networking.ibm.com/WebExplorer/webhome.htm |date=January 16, 1999 |title=The official page at IBM }}

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070222135131/http://www.seds.org/~spider/os2/webex.html The IBM OS/2 WebExplorer]

IBM WebExplorer is mentioned in United States v. Microsoft.

Downloads

version 1.1 at browsers.evolt.org

version 1.1h

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