Pythia

Pythia -- Pythia is a web browser developed to meet the needs of large businesses by concentrating on critical features such as security, enhanced visual layout, and interfaces to standard RDBMS and GIS databases. While this may very well meet the "needs of the most demanding systems integration companies in the world", Pythia will not meet the demanding needs of most web users. This is one of the slowest browsers I've ever used and is lacking in several critical features, most noticeably tables. In addition, the demo version available on the 'net is site-locked to the Pythia web site, so unless you plan on registering Pythia you won't be traveling very far. Local web pages are also accessible by Pythia, but even these take longer to load than most web browsers. Overall, while Pythia may well be the web browser for demanding businesses, I don't think it's the browser for everyone else. Pros: Meets the needs of large systems integration organizations Cons: Slooowwwww, still suffers from feature deprivation New: Background images, personality modules, JPEG support, HTML 3 compliance Version Reviewed: 2.43 Date of Review: 8/4/95 Reviewer: Forrest Stroud apps conference Main Menu