DENG Browser is out

Found this on Claus' Blog. Looks like the beta for DENG browser is out. Here's what Claus has to say:

Today we put the first public beta version of the DENG Browser online.

The DENG Browser is a desktop application based on the upcoming DENG Flash MX Component, looking, feeling and behaving just like your favourite Web Browser (Mozilla, Internet Explorer, ..)

You may ask yourself why we would write a Web Browser, as there are already quite some good implementations out there. There are several reasons:

First, this software is not meant to replace your favourite HTML Browser, nor is it supposed to replace Flash or anything else. Flash currently is way too slow for being able to compete with C++ implementations. We developed the browser to give the beta testers of the DENG Component the ability to test their documents in an easy way, without having to touch the Flash IDE. We think that the DENG Browser is of interest for a much broader audience so we decided to make it public.

Another reason, and thats the main reason we developed the DENG Component, is missing support for emerging Web Standards like XForms in current browser implementations. The final version of DENG (we are hopefully going to release it in summer/fall this year) will feature support for XHTML Tiny, XForms, XFrames and Mobile SVG, all styled by CSS2 (plus some CSS3 features) amongst many others, with a strong focus on XForms. Currently, it supports subsets of all those technologies, growing every day.

Last but not least, DENG is a zero-install rendering engine based on Macromedia Flash technology, allowing very fast development cycles (for an experienced Actionscript developer, it is very easy to write new Namespace Modules) and support for rich content.

Download the browser...

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