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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.glennmcc.org/arachne/

A DOS web browser.

• 2019-11-16 — I see it’s been abandoned by its original people, but it lives on elsewhere.
• 2018-05-26 — I see it’s been active since I last looked in on it.

• 2006-04-04 — This project has been abandoned, and a v2 of this project is being written for Linux. It’s a pipe-dream at this point.

  • GPL Arachne for DOS is no longer supported by Arachne! — (source)

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• https://web.archive.org/web/20080423024731/http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/ — Open source Arachne
• Arachne Plugins
• was browser.arachne.cz

• was home.arachne.cz/

  • was browser.arachne.cz/lists.shtml

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• 2006-04-04 or earlier – 1.66b on (environment not recorded, presumably Microsoft DOS 6.22)

2006-04-04 or earlier – A note on Arachne II ∞

https://web.archive.org/web/20150620185241/http://www.arachne.cz/?page=soft

Arachne II is being developed

Arachne II is long-term plan to develop Nautilus/Konqueror and possibly even Midnight Commander replacement for Linux desktop – but it is going to be more than that. We need Arachne II because all major graphical file managers and setup tools for Linux (not desktop enviroments themselves) are incredibly bloated, slow, counter-intuitive and unusable.

Integration of excellent open source Gecko engine from Mozilla is being considered to implement web browser functionality – however, Arachne II is going to be much more than just web browser and file manager replacement. One of its goals is going to make graphical desktop scripting as easy, popular and widespread as bash, perl or web scripting is today. Desktop scripting is going to mimic servers-side web scripting using open standards like HTML, CSS, and, well, ehm, JavaScript. It will also implement much needed power-admin vs. lame-users relationship awareness, network-based mobility and network transparency into Linux desktop.

Architecture of Arachne II is going to focus on re-implementing the most successful feature of modern web browsers, which is totaly asynchronous GUI, independent on currently processed task. File and desktop management tasks are often blocking the human-machine comunication, leaving user idle while refining various fine details of next dialogue window – but power-user expects instant response, being usually satisfied only with command line and assoicated tools (like Midnight Commander).

2006-04-04 or earlier – 1.66b ∞

Arachne is still unready for the real world. I’m looking for something which uses X natively.

• I was forced to modify the install script, replace instances of libc-2.1 with libc-2.2