Grail (web browser)

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Original author(s)Guido van Rossum[1][2]
Developer(s)Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
Initial releaseAugust 1995; 31 years ago (1995-08)
Preview release0.6 / 1 April 1999; 27 years ago (1999-04-01)
Written inPython
TypeWeb browser
LicenseFree software license[3]
Websitegrail.sourceforge.net

Grail was a free web browser written in the Python programming language. It is open-source, meaning the source code is freely available. Development started in August 1995, with the first version (0.2) being released in November 1995.[4] The last version (0.6) was released on April 1, 1999.

Unlike other web browsers of the time, web pages can use Python code in a similar way to JavaScript code.[5][6]

It is thought Grail was named after Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a film by British comedy group Monty Python, similar to how Python was named after Monty Python.

References

  1. ↑ Scripting the Web with Python[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. ↑ In the beginning there was the Grail,(Page 519), Programming Python, By Mark Lutz, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2001
  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. 5.2 Grail architecture. Adaptive Applications in Mobile Environments (15 October 1999). p. 47. Retrieved 16 December 2016.

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