Tag: shiira

Shiira 2 released, offers HUD framework

If you haven’t already heard, Shiira 2 has been released. Shiira is a web browser written in Cocoa and based on Webkit that aims to provide a better browsing alternative than Safari.

A sub-project of Shiira is a HUD-type window class. While they’re not completely accurate to the specifications used by Apple, these are probably the best HUD windows I’ve seen from a third party developer by a long shot.

HUD window from Shiira

The HUD Windows have the funny name of HMBLBlkAppKit. The Shiira team has really done a great job!

Lessons from Shiira

Shiira is an open source web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. This article presents the most useful features of Shiira and gives a preview to the some of the new additions that are coming in version 2, including exclusive information from the latest build.

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