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Sleipnir

Everyone has heard of Firefox and many have heard of Opera but how many of you have heard of Sleipnir? I have no idea what their actual marketshare is but if I was to go by looking at my co-workers for the last 2 years it would be something like 90%.

February 24th, 2006 | Tags: | Category: news
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  • http://www.feverishmind.com kai
    What features does Sleipnir have

    For us non-Japanese speakers, can you give a quick rundown of the features? Babelfish doesn’t do a great job of translating.

    How is it different/better than Firefox?

  • Miletos

    It’s debatable if software like Sleipnir can be called a browser. It uses the entire Trident engine from Internet Explorer and build on that to basically create an IE with dramatically increased functionality. Some call it a hack, but the Trident engine was designed to be modular and thus be used by other developers in their own software. (most define a hack as using something in a way it wasn’t meant to be used)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(layout_engine)

    http://www.maxthon.com

    http://www.avantbrowser.com

  • http://blog.greggman.com greggman

    According to the Sleipnir website they also have the Gecko engine included. Why two rendering engines I don’t no except for yet another option.

  • http://kanai.net/weblog/ GenKanai

    Sleipnir is a marketing company, basically. They don’t make any of their own technologies (i.e. they’re using either Gecko or Trident as their base.)

    They do have decent marketshare among Japanese techies who need to use IE but want more customizability.

    In real terms their marketshare is very very small.

  • Jess

    Have you noticed that their steering wheel logo looks a lot like Netscape Navigator?

    Can you get this in English?