Groundbreaking Camino browser digs grave, jumps in

[steve2470]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/31/camino_calls_it_quits/

The Camino browser, first conceived around the turn of the millennium as a free, open source project designed to be a true "Mac-like" browser for the then-nascent Mac OS X, has reached the end of the line.

"After a decade-long run, Camino is no longer being developed, and we encourage all users to upgrade to a more modern browser," Camino co–project leader Stuart Morgan wrote in a farewell blog post. "Camino is increasingly lagging behind the fast pace of changes on the web, and more importantly it is not receiving security updates, making it increasingly unsafe to use."

Today, if you fire up your copy of Camino 2.1.2 – the most recent version, and now the last – you'll be greeted with the following:



For those of us who remember the early days of OS X – then called Mac OS X – even in beta form Camino was a blessing. Sluggish Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 was then the dominant Mac browser (although many of us fanbois were devoted to The Omni Group's OmniWeb, an early migrant from the NextStep/OpenStep platform), but to call IE 5 "Mac-like" would be akin to calling a Yugo or Trabant "Ferarri-like".

[hunter]

1. This new WebKit world makes me a little uneasy.

The World Wide Web and HTML were conceived as something simple, easy to render, mostly free of unnecessary bling. The presentation of information was supposed to belong to the user, not the creator of a web page.

Now we expect browsers to do anything a computer can do. The browser itself is an operating system wrapped around underlying operating systems.

I'm not sure this was the correct path to take.

Sigh.

[grok]

3. That's sad for me

This essentially is the best browser i can get running on an OLD OLD emac i have. guess i have no more excuse to keep it now.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. RIP, Camino

I have been using it for years. I didn't know this was the end of the line.