Also, Safari is given only a quick view because although the HTML engine is open source, the rest of the Safari product is not.

I am pissed about all the browsers that people are listing that were not in the original spec for the article, or where, even in the article, I have made specific exceptions.

Shiira didn’t make it to many areas (including both VersionTracker and MAcUpdate) until December with v1.2.

Huh? Strangely enough, prior to Shiira 1.2 there was Shiira … 1.1! It was listed on VersionTracker in August, and on MacUpdate at around the same time.

I can only write an article based on the information available at the time - the fact that other information and options have become available in the two months between me writing the article and it being published is not my fault.

As has been clearly demonstrated, the information was available at the time. You failed to do sufficient research into the subject matter and are now pissed that you’re being called on it.

I did actually search for FOSS browsers before writing the article, and I found quite a few which had been started and had died.

The article was originally written in November - Shiira didn’t make it to many areas (including both VersionTracker and MAcUpdate) until December with v1.2. It only hit the mainstream blogs and other sites fairly recently.

I can only write an article based on the information available at the time - the fact that other information and options have become available in the two months between me writing the article and it being published is not my fault.

Based on the free software products that are in the article, what other comment was I supposed to make?

I know, perhaps what I should have done is feature three FOSS browsers (Firefox/Mozilla/Camino) and then suggested that we all pay Microsoft to update Internet Explorer?

Would that make you happy?

GO FIREFOX GO MOZILLA GO CAMINO GO GO GO!!!!!! oh ya, there is that safari thing and that omniweb thing

As to mentioning OmniWeb, it’s there because it uses the same core WebKit as Safari and is there really for comparison. No, it’s not free, but if you read the article, you’d see that I explain the reason for its inclusion as the closest thing to a FOSS browser that isn’t Mozilla since it *is* based on FOSS technology.

The article is about GUI browsers, which is excludes Lynx and others. Flock is not a release product - Free Software Magazine rules on these articles exclude software which is not in an official released state.

Opera has been free for quite a while now. It ain’t open-source, but it’s been free since late september last year. And thats before you wrote your article. Now, I’m not a avid opera supporter but your article should have included Opera since they have their own rendering engine and thus offer a third option for OS X

You mentioned nothing about Flock.

The article claims to be about open source browsers, but then mentions omniweb?! If you are mentioning Omniweb you should have mentioned iCab and Opera too, both are classics. And what about Netscape and IE?

You didn’t mention RAFBrowser. But you mentioned Omniweb. No mention of the innovative SunriseBrowser. And SunriseBrowser is open source, and has been out since August.

What about all those great cli browsers? w3m, links, lynx? I see no mention of them at all, and they are quite useful. Heck, you can even view images in w3m.

Now, had this been “Nice, mainstream browsers” instead of the advertised “FOSS browsers!”, I think it would have been a lot more accurate of a title.

Beyond Shiira, and the Mozilla browsers, there is very little.

Remember the definition has to be that the browser is free software (which also implies open source) rather than simply downloadable for free.

I could hardly include Lynx (which is text only), other solutions are either very simple (Dillo) and not really a comparison, or not free software (Opera).

If you can suggest any other free, open source, browser available for OS X that can compete with the functionality of the offerings of Mozilla (except Shiira, which I’ll happily except was omitted, but which I was also completely unaware of), I’ll happily review them.