Cyberdog
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| Cyberdog | |
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 Screenshot of various components of Cyberdog |
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| Developer: | Apple Computer |
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| OS: | Mac OS |
| Use: | Internet suite |
| Website: | http://www.cyberdog.org |
Cyberdog is an internet suite that was developed by Apple Computer for the Mac OS line of operating systems. It was introduced as a beta in February 1996 [1] and abandoned in March 1997 [2]. It worked with later versions of Mac OS 7 as well as the Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 operating systems.
[edit] Overview
Cyberdog, Apple's answer to larger "monolithic" applications such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, was an OpenDoc-based suite of internet applications, including email and news readers, a web browser and address book management components, as well as drag and drop FTP. OpenDoc allowed these components to be reused and embedded in other documents by the user. For instance, a "live" Cyberdog web page could be embedded in a presentation program, one of the common demonstrations of OpenDoc.
Unfortunately, OpenDoc had a huge memory footprint, often larger than both the web browser and mail applications in other suites. Moreover, saved documents were not viewable from applications which did not support OpenDoc's Bento format — that is, practically all of them. Cyberdog's web browser quickly grew outdated as web standards evolved.
With Mac OS 8.6, Apple replaced Cyberdog 2.1 with Microsoft's Internet Explorer for Mac as the pre-installed web browser. Apple continued to ship Internet Explorer as the default web browser until the October 2003 release of Safari with Mac OS X v10.3.
Cyberdog was once positioned as a replacement for the earlier, discontinued, Apple Open Collaboration Environment.
