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Also known as Viola Web Browser, Viola, Viola World Wide Web

ViolaWWW is a discontinued web browser, the first to support scripting and stylesheets for the World Wide Web (WWW). It was first released in 1991/1992 for Unix and acted as the recommended browser at CERN, where the WWW was invented, but eventually lost its position as most frequently used browser to Mosaic.

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Software.name
ViolaWWW
Software.screenshot
ViolaWWW.png
Software.caption
ViolaWWW 3.3
Software.developer
Pei-Yuan Wei
Software.discontinued
yes
Software.programming language
Viola
Software.operating system
Unix
Software.language
English
Software.genre
Web browser

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publication date
1992-05-00
inception
1992-03-09
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  • Viola
  • History of ViolaWWW
  • Firsts
  • Competing against Mosaic
  • ViolaWWW in patent lawsuits
  • See also
  • References
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ViolaWWW is a discontinued web browser, the first to support scripting and stylesheets for the World Wide Web (WWW). It was first released in 1991/1992 for Unix and acted as the recommended browser at CERN, where the WWW was invented, but eventually lost its position as most frequently used browser to Mosaic.

==Viola== Released in 1992, Viola was the invention of Pei-Yuan Wei, a member of the Experimental Computing Facility (XCF) at the University of California, Berkeley. Viola was a UNIX-based programming/scripting language; the acronym stood for "Visually Interactive Object-oriented Language and Application".

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