Browsers for the Web?
There exist:
- Many browsers for Unix. The most common one is Mosaic, written by
the NCSA and which uses X11. There are character-based ones as well.
- Mosaic for Microsoft Windows, also from NCSA.
- Mosaic for the Macintosh, as well as Samba.
- Browsers for other platforms, e.g VMS, NeXTStep.
For ADFA, this would allow web documents to be available to all students,
in labs and in their divs, regardless of the computer platform they use.
Writing Web Documents
A web document is plain ASCII, with HTML `markup commands' to provide font
sizes/types, hyper links etc.
You can write your own web documents. There are utilities to help create
web documents:
- An Emacs HTML environment.
- Macros to create HTML documents from within Microsoft Word.
- TkWWW, an X11 program.
Alternatively, you can convert from other formats, such as:
- Rich Text Format (RTF), with several utilities.
- Word Perfect, with several utilities.
- Troff, with ms2html and mm2html.
- LaTeX, with latex2html and others.
- PostScript, with ps2html.
- FrameMaker, Texinfo, Interleaf and others.
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Warren Toomey
wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au, April 1994