Lobo Browser: The Move To MIT And The Reasoning Behind It.

Eric Hocking — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:07:51 -0000

The Lobo Browser team here at PlexiLabs is always looking for innovative ways to improve our project. Today we are officially announcing that we have decided to change to MIT licensing. The reason behind this is we are currently working on a massive rewrite of Lobo Browser to migrate it from the Swing UI to the JavaFX UI, and so we feel that it is best to do so to unify the project licensing. As of today, any forks using the old license are advised to transfer to the MIT license as well should they wish to continue receiving upstream changes. Thank you for your cooperation with us on this change.

Lobo Browser: 0.98.4 Released

Lobo Project Lead — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:39:41 -0000

Lobo is an extensible all-Java web browser and RIA platform. It supports HTML 4, Javascript (AJAX) and CSS 2 plus direct JavaFX and Java (Swing/AWT) rendering. Cobra is the web browser's renderer API; also a Javascript-aware HTML parser.

Version 0.98.4 brings Lobo up to date with JavaFX 1.0.

Additionally, the Lobo API now has vetoable navigation listeners and a feature that allows caller to obtain the document object.

Several enhancements to the Cobra rendering engine have been implemented as well.

Details: http://lobobrowser.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/lobo-browser-0984-released/
SF Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xamj

Lobo Browser: 0.98.3 Released

Lobo Project Lead — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:17:05 -0000

Version 0.98.3 implements SUB and SUP. Additionally, it fixes about 20 user-reported bugs. Please see the changelog for details.

Changelog: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=139023&release_id=623331
Download: http://lobobrowser.org/download.jsp
SF Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xamj

Lobo Browser: 0.98.2 Released

Lobo Project Lead — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:05:43 -0000

Lobo is an extensible all-Java web browser and RIA platform. It is being built to support HTML 4, Javascript (AJAX) and CSS2 plus direct JavaFX and Java (Swing/AWT) rendering. Cobra is the web browser's rendering engine API and a Javascript-aware HTML parser.

Version 0.98.2 of Lobo introduces some enhancements related to JavaFX compilation, in addition to numerous HTML renderer bug fixes. Please see the changelog for details.

SF Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xamj
Lobo Home: http://lobobrowser.org/java-browser.jsp
Changelog: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=598611&group_id=139023

Cobra HTML Toolkit: 0.98.1 Released

Lobo Project Lead — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:54:32 -0000

Lobo is an extensible all-Java web browser and RIA platform. It supports HTML 4, Javascript (AJAX) and CSS2 plus direct JavaFX and Java (Swing/AWT) rendering. Cobra is the web browser's rendering engine API; also a Javascript-aware HTML parser.

Cobra is a HTML DOM parser and rendering engine that is part of the all-Java Lobo web browser.

Version 0.98.1 introduces a few HTML parser enhancements. We have written a new page specifically about the HTML DOM parser, which includes examples that involve the use of XPath and simulation of form submission. See:

http://lobobrowser.org/cobra/java-html-parser.jsp

We have also implemented means to set the locales of a document, such that the renderer can select fonts that can display in the languages corresponding to the given locales. Whenever a locale is not given, the default locale is used. These enhancements address a long-standing issue with font display of pages in Chinese, Japanese and other languages.

Several other enhancements and bug fixes have been implemented. Please see the changelog for details.

Cobra Home: http://lobobrowser.org/cobra.jsp
SF Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xamj
Changelog: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=586542&group_id=139023

Jim Weaver Comments on JavaFX Support in Lobo

Lobo Project Lead — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:00:18 -0000

Jim Weaver is the author of "JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications" (Apress). He also runs a JavaFX blog: http://learnjavafx.typepad.com/

We recently requested Jim's permission to post his Tetris applet at lobobrowser.org as a proof of concept of Lobo's recently introduced JavaFX support. Jim has now written a post on this capability of Lobo. Check it out here:

http://java.dzone.com/articles/me-and-you-and-dog-named-boo-o

Jim Weaver's Tetris JFX in Lobo

Lobo Project Lead — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:38:58 -0000

I got Jim Weaver's permission to post one of his examples, which is basically the beginnings of a Tetris game written in compiled JavaFX Script:

http://www.lobobrowser.org/ext/jfx/TetrisMain.fx
(click to start in Lobo 0.98+)

It's slightly modified to run in Lobo. View its source code for some indications on how it's set up. It also highlights some things that need to be improved in Lobo.

I've posted other examples in the Open Discussion forum:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=467019

Lobo Browser: 0.98 Released

Lobo Project Lead — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:36:45 -0000

Lobo is an extensible all-Java web browser and RIA platform. It supports HTML 4, Javascript (AJAX) and CSS2 plus direct JavaFX and Java (Swing/AWT) rendering. Cobra is the web browser's rendering engine API; also a Javascript-aware HTML parser.

The Lobo Project leadership is pleased to announce milestone release 0.98 of our all-Java web browser, Lobo. This is the first release of Lobo that can directly render compiled JavaFX source files. Information about this new capability can be found here:

http://lobobrowser.org/non-html/javafx-browser.jsp

Version 0.98 can also render "pages" written entirely in Java (either AWT or Swing).

This release addresses about 50 issues in the browser, HTML rendering engine (Cobra) and CSS2 parser. We would like to thank various users for their time contributions to this version of Lobo and Cobra. Please see the changelog for additional details.

Changelog: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=583031&group_id=139023
Browser Home: http://lobobrowser.org/java-browser.jsp
Download: http://lobobrowser.org/download.jsp
SF Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xamj

JNode could make Lobo its browser

Lobo Project Lead — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:15:10 -0000

JNode is an innovative Java-based operating system effort. It is undergoing active development for several years now, and it appears to be growing. The maintainers of jNode have expressed interest in using Lobo some time in the future:

http://www.jnode.org/node/2396

We welcome that. jNode could very well be the OS of the future. It makes sense that they would use the browser of the future :)

First Lobo Plugin Reported

Lobo Project Lead — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:40:36 -0000

Geertjan Wielenga has created an actual Lobo plugin JAR file that serves a practical purpose, i.e. render XML files and syntax color them in Lobo. A link where you can download the JAR file can be found in his latest post titled "How to Add Syntax Coloring for XML in the Lobo Java Web Browser" here:

http://java.dzone.com/news/how-add-syntax-coloring-xml-lo

You just need to save the JAR file in the ext directory of your Lobo installation, start/restart the browser, load any local XML file or one from the internet, and voila!

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