ViolaWWW
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ViolaWWW is a discontinued web browser, the first to support scripting and stylesheets for the World Wide Web (WWW). It was first released in 1991/1992 for Unix and acted as the recommended browser at CERN, where the WWW was invented, but eventually lost its position as most frequently used browser to Mosaic.
Key facts
- Software.name
- ViolaWWW
- Software.screenshot
- ViolaWWW.png
- Software.caption
- ViolaWWW 3.3
- Software.developer
- Pei-Yuan Wei
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- Software.programming language
- Viola
- Software.operating system
- Unix
- Software.language
- English
- Software.genre
- Web browser
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Viola
- History of ViolaWWW
- Firsts
- Competing against Mosaic
- ViolaWWW in patent lawsuits
- See also
- References
- External links
ViolaWWW is a discontinued web browser, the first to support scripting and stylesheets for the World Wide Web (WWW). It was first released in 1991/1992 for Unix and acted as the recommended browser at CERN, where the WWW was invented, but eventually lost its position as most frequently used browser to Mosaic.
==Viola== Released in 1992, Viola was the invention of Pei-Yuan Wei, a member of the Experimental Computing Facility (XCF) at the University of California, Berkeley. Viola was a UNIX-based programming/scripting language; the acronym stood for "Visually Interactive Object-oriented Language and Application".
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