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- thegreatanti, on 07/22/2008, -1/+100Yawn...
"Perfect pages with the Industry-Standard Trident Engine
The vast majority of websites are designed for optimal viewing in Internet Explorer. Sleipnir uses the same Trident rendering engine as Internet Explorer, so it will display just about any web page perfectly."
Just another IE shell. I'm surprised they didn't call it the "award-winning" Trident Engine. Besides that, it looks straight out of 2001. Yups, we have a worthy competitor here.
source: http://www.fenrir-inc.com/us/sleipnir/ - jrkagan, on 07/23/2008, -1/+67I think I'd rather use IE7. And that says a lot.
- HigherLogic, on 07/23/2008, -1/+64*shudders* Browser looks horrible, and crashed when I first opened it. It's basically IE6.
- disrupter, on 07/23/2008, -9/+50Wow the Japanese really suck at application development - that app looks horrible
- WCL23, on 07/23/2008, -2/+41Looks like an early Maxthon build. FAIL.
- Aitese, on 07/23/2008, -2/+36How did this spam make it to the front page? It only has a 9% market share in it's own native Japan, where according to this article it's "well known"! How on Earth is it going to get 5% world wide?
- nebkiwi, on 07/23/2008, -3/+36um, its called IE tab.
- KingFog, on 07/23/2008, -1/+29It's pretty much IE6 with Tabs... Even IE7 is better than that!
Yeah, i'm fine with Firefox, IE Tab and User Agent Switcher... - thedaylights, on 07/23/2008, -6/+33alas, no version for Linux.
- norbiu, on 07/23/2008, -3/+30Their hentai is great, though. So I heard...
- aDJsavedmylife, on 07/23/2008, -0/+22It looks like IE6.
Then with two rendering engines that they didn't make running under it.
...I'm ok thanks. - dsmx, on 07/22/2008, -2/+24Can't firfox do that anyway with the switch rendering engine add on?
- Jams, on 07/23/2008, -2/+23Who the hell is digging this spam? Buried as yet another IE shell.
- mwalker05, on 07/22/2008, -4/+23a bit of engrish on the sleipnir website and the screenshots make it look like IE 6. Is there anybody who uses this that can compare it to something like say firefox or IE7?
- jazzbeaux, on 07/23/2008, -0/+19The same way the continuous stream of Apple spam makes it on here....
- BurgerPunch, on 07/23/2008, -2/+17its the ***** IE engine
- andsalvatierra, on 07/23/2008, -0/+12Seriously, these guys want to take market share from FF (and IE, for that matter) using what's practically little more than an IE shell?
No thanks. Firefox does mighty fine for me right now. - hitkaiser, on 07/23/2008, -0/+12Then how is it decent?
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -8/+18We already have Safari, firefox, flock, Camino, Opera, Shiira, Sea Monkey, iCab, OmniWeb and probably more
All of them better than this ***** - Jams, on 07/23/2008, -1/+11If they're going to take on IE and Firefox then they should create their own rendering engine instead of using Microsoft and Mozilla's
- coasterfreak212, on 07/23/2008, -0/+10"By clicking a small button in the bottom left of the browser and switching between Trident and Gecko, users can choose the best one for the particular site."
Man, freaking Netscape Navigator 8 had this option. And IE Tab like everyone else said does the same thing.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/NS8. ...
'Till it's user friendly, customizable without need to know vast amounts of coding, and more powerful in the customizations than firefox, there is no way they can jump their user base from 10,000 to 17 million. I don't think there are 1 million "advanced web browser users" to care about customization. - Audacitor, on 07/23/2008, -0/+9Not iCab. I know, there's a free version, but who the hell actually pays for their webbrowser?
- palewook, on 07/23/2008, -1/+10too many addons in firefox i can't surf without.
- alpha88, on 07/23/2008, -0/+8If they're going to take on IE and Firefox, I suggest they get a better name. Nevermind the browser itself.
- SimonGray, on 07/23/2008, -1/+9Strange for a Japanese company to name their products out of stuff from Nordic mythology.
- TenebrousX, on 07/23/2008, -0/+8Trident is IE's rendering engine. Firefox uses Gecko, Safari uses WebKit, and Opera uses Presto
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7It looks like ***** but I bet it has more users than my beloved Opera. Sigh.
- Tralobyte, on 07/23/2008, -1/+8An add on to firefox or....a whole new browser that probably provides you with another copy of the gecko engine.
Decisions, decisions. - leetninja, on 07/22/2008, -19/+25alas ... no version for OSx
- an0n1m0us, on 07/23/2008, -2/+8just another IExploder clone
pathetic - antechinus, on 07/23/2008, -3/+9Like Americans suck at driving automobiles. Horses for courses I suppose.
- teaBagger, on 07/23/2008, -0/+6What is the secret key sequence for the easter egg? (tenticle rape option)
- jazzbeaux, on 07/23/2008, -0/+6I guess you skipped over the "award-winning" Gecko engine part, eh?
- falafelkiosken, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5well, Trident is not available for any OSes except Windows
- LiquidShield, on 07/23/2008, -1/+5That web browsers looks like Firefox got drunk one night and ***** IE6 and that's what pooped out 9 months later. God that looks horrible. If it was innovative and turned my desktop into a web browser with out having to launch an application then it would kinda kewl, but no..
- djkrush, on 07/23/2008, -1/+5I actually heard the owner of HearJapan (http://www.hearjapan.com) talking about this the other day. He said it sucked, but is highly customizable and there are some interesting encryption algorythms to decode "crypted" websites.
- ungamedplayer, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4Opera has a world of wii users, also a lot of mobile and desktop users.. you might be surprised.
- BurgerPunch, on 07/23/2008, -1/+5nice job stealing osx icons for that CD and *****
- bcstereotype, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4I used to use Sleipnir browser back in the days before Firefox and found it quite neat and customizable. However, when Firefox did turn up, it did everything I wanted better. Granted, that's no opinion on how it stands today, but I'm on OS X, so no chance of trying it out now. :(
- drikle, on 07/23/2008, -4/+7It looks like Firefox with IE icons...
- trollick, on 07/23/2008, -0/+31. Take some layout engine
2. Add a few buttons
3. ?
4. Profit! - gilbitron, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3Nooo! Why base your rendering engine on IE's Trident. Have you not heard... its CRAP!
Firefox ftw! - sx66gns, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2No Linux version?
***** them , end of story. - jpeazy, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2The website resembles every mac site identically, yet it doesn't have a mac version...
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2I think its based on webkit, not firefox.
- yuutokun, on 07/23/2008, -7/+9Nice to overgeneralize based on one piece of software. You could make the same blanket statement about the US based on Microsoft products.
- morouxshi, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3No version for Linux / OS X and they claim its for 'Advanced Users'. I wish them luck with their oxymoron.
- stephantabor, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3Did you read the article? It's both IE's and Firefox's engines, you can switch whenever you want.
- skrowl, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3I had this when it was called Maxthon 1.
- sat0shi, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3We really are behind in software development here... America pwns us in the software department.
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