Grail was a free extensible multi-platform web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

 written in the Python programming language

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

. The project was started in August 1995, with its first public release in November of that year. The .3 beta contained over 27,000 lines of Python. Its last release was of version 0.6 in 1999, with latest version under development.

One of the major distinguishing features of Grail was the ability to run client-side Python code, in much the same way as mainstream browsers run client-side JavaScript

Client-side JavaScript

Client-side JavaScript is JavaScript that runs on the client-side. While JavaScript was originally created to run this way, the term was coined because the language is no longer limited to just client-side, since server-side JavaScript is now available.-Environment:The most common Internet media...

 code.

Future developments

Grail is currently being developed by SourceForge member Visual-101 as of 7 October 2007. No release date available for next version.

External links

• Overview of Grail by Guido van Rossum
  Guido van Rossum
  Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator For Life" , meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary...
  
  
• Grail on Github