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AMSD Ariadna

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Operating system
  
Windows 95Windows NT

License
  
Proprietary

Available in
  
Web browser

Developer(s)
  
Advanced Multimedia System Design

Initial release
  
1995; 22 years ago (1995)

Stable release
  
1.3 / 1996; 21 years ago (1996)

AMSD Ariadna is the first Russian web browser ever developed. It was developed by Advanced Multimedia System Design (AMSD) in early 1994.

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Development

To spread word of the Internet in Russia, AMSD researched the web browser in 1994. It was released in 1995 and was ported to Windows 95 and Windows NT.

By the time of its introduction, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, two no-cost browsers, were dominating the Russian browser market. Ariadna, however, wasn't free software and, despite its high quality, failed to make a stance in the market and was terminated a few years later.

Features

Being a pioneer browser, Ariadna has limited functionality compared to today's browsers. Some features include:

  • HTML 3.2 support
  • PNG support, including transparency (but not as background images)
  • Limited Java support (only JDK 1.02)
  • E-mail and text box support
  • 50,000 word English-Russian dictionary
  • Data filter

    • Ariadna does not support animated GIFs or JavaScript.

    References

    AMSD Ariadna Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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