Grail (web browser)

Grail
Grail 0.6 running under Python 2.7 on Linux
Original author(s)	Guido van Rossum [1] [2]
Developer(s)	Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
Initial release	August 1995;30 years ago (1995-08)
Preview release	0.6 / 1 April 1999;26 years ago (1999-04-01)
Repository	sourceforge.net/projects/grail/
Written in	Python
Type	Web browser
License	Free software license [3]
Website	grail.sourceforge.net

Grail was a free extensible multi-platform web browser written in the Python programming language. The project was started in August 1995, with its first public release in November of that year. ^[4] The last official release was version 0.6 in 1999.

One of the major distinguishing features of Grail was the ability to run client-side Python code, in much the same way as mainstream browsers run client-side JavaScript code. ^{[5] [6]}

The name Grail is thought to be a tribute to Monty Python and the Holy Grail , a film by the British comedy group Monty Python. The name follows a similar suit to that of Python's─the programming language was too named after Monty Python.

References

1. Scripting the Web with Python ^{[ permanent dead link ]}, I wrote Grail version 0.1 in less than two weeks, as a sort of demo; it consisted of under 2000 lines in 14 source files. It was released in August 1995., Guido van Rossum
2. Mark Lutz (2001). Programming Python. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 519. ISBN   978-0-596-00085-1.
3. Grail source license
4. Grail - The Browser For The Rest Of Us (DRAFT)
5. 18.5.1. A Simple Grail Applet Example, Thinking about Programming Python, 3rd Edition - Advanced Internet Topics - Grail A Python Based Web Browser, CodeIdol
6. Henricksen, Karen (15 October 1999). "5.2 Grail architecture" (PDF). Adaptive Applications in Mobile Environments. Indulska, Jadwiga (supervisor): 47. Retrieved 16 December 2016.

External links

Official website