Arena (web browser)

The Arena browser (also known as the Arena WWW Browser) was one of the first <a href="/facts/Web_browser/2pfyymLs">web browsers</a> for <a href="/facts/Unix/0pNL2seI">Unix</a>. Originally begun by <a href="/facts/Dave_Raggett/792XCv4Q">Dave Raggett</a> in 1993, development continued at <a href="/facts/CERN/y1gwRchm">CERN</a> and the <a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web_Consortium/lGWmhF6M">World Wide Web Consortium</a> (W3C) and subsequently by Yggdrasil Computing. Arena was used in testing the implementations for <a href="/facts/HTML/sSc3fT78">HTML version 3.0</a>, <a href="/facts/Cascading_Style_Sheets/tA90XBQo">Cascading Style Sheets</a> (CSS), <a href="/facts/Portable_Network_Graphics/mwgK6xw5">Portable Network Graphics</a> (PNG), and <a href="/facts/Libwww/p6ud7zPh">libwww</a>. Arena was widely used and popular at the beginning of the <a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web/wvnTrWFq">World Wide Web</a>.
Arena, which predated <a href="/facts/Netscape_Navigator/f9m231Wp">Netscape Navigator</a> and <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a>'s <a href="/facts/Internet_Explorer/uL8a4Y5l">Internet Explorer</a>, featured a number of innovations used later in commercial products. It was the first browser to support background images, <a href="/facts/HTML_element/s4TKzjUP">tables</a>, text flow around images, and inline mathematical expressions.
The Arena browser served as the W3C's <a href="/facts/Testbed/ITQIUXFc">testbed</a> browser from 1994 to 1996 when it was succeeded by the <a href="/facts/Amaya_(web_editor)/uBBEQvSF">Amaya</a> project.

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Arena (web browser)