Amiga Mosaic & WWW Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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See Also

Terraforming Cyberspace ( Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Niranjan Suri, Alberto J. Cañas, Robert Davis, Kenneth Ford, Robert Hoffman, Renia Jeffers, Thomas Reichherzer ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2001-07)

Will WAP Deliver the Wireless Internet? ( Neal Leavitt ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2000-05)

Students Stumble onto Internet Explorer Flaw ( Lee Garber ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-04)

Dawn of the Internet Appliance ( George Lawton ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-010)

Using the WWW Test Pattern to check HTML client compliance ( Hal Berghel ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1995-09)

Mosaic and the World Wide Web ( Ronald J. Vetter, Chris Spell, Charles Ward ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1994-010)

The x-kernel: A Platform for Accessing Internet Resources ( Larry Peterson, Norman Hutchinson, Sean O'Malley, Herman Rao ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1990-05)

Extracting HTML and Images from MHT and CHM? [2002/01/25]

Dreamcast as a Web Browser? [2001/12/24]

Running Solaris IE Binaries in FreeBSD? [2001/11/27]

Disabling Flash on Specific Sites? [2001/11/17]

Browser Bindings for Python, Perl, and other Languages? [2001/09/18]

Filtering Based on TLD? [2001/09/06]

Ethically Monitoring Your Kid's Net Access [2001/06/11]

"Pop Under" Advestising Filtering? [2001/06/02]

No Browsers for NeXTstep? [2001/05/30]

Hacking The Bush IBX100 Internet Set-Top Box? [ 2000/11/02]

Censorship - Libraries and the Internet? [ 2000/09/22]

Remote Access To Web Server Using Palm Pilot? [ 2000/09/18]

Is There An Effective Way To Kill Banner Ads? [ 2000/09/05]

Are There Problems with AOL's Web Access? [ 2000/08/23]

Best Uses of WAP? [ 2000/08/23]

Would Exchanging Cookies Defeat DoubleClick? [ 2000/08/14]

Non-Windows Clients Working Behind MS Proxy? [ 2000/06/26]

PCS Phone + UP.Browser == Killer App? [ 1999/11/12]

What Happened to Netcaster? [ 1999/10/17]

Accepting Cookies from Only One Site on the Web? [ 1999/09/26]

Where can you find Older Netscape Browsers? [ 1999/01/21]

Questions and Answers

lynx(1) - a general purpose distributed information browser for the World Wide Web {oss}

Sitescooper - Automatically retrieves the stories from several news websites, trims off extraneous HTML, and converts them into formats you can read on your Palm computing device for later reading on-the-move. {(L)GPL}

asNews -- web-based news retrieving - asNews is a simple news retrieving and parsing program which gets the news from the net and shows it in your desktop: news are placed in your favorite WM's menu or shown using a simple but comfortable GUI. {(L)GPL}

NScache - A simple browser of Netscape(tm) browsers cache directory with GTK+ GUI. It displays tabular overview of files stored in cache directory organized in sorted list or tree view. It is posible to copy files from cache directory, preview files, ... {(L)GPL}

Surfraw - Shell Revolutionary Front - Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web. Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. Forsake GUI idolatry! Aposate return! {(L)GPL}

GNUscape Navigator - is a Web browser that runs under GNU Emacs. {GPL,GNU}

elinks-0.3.0 - Elinks - links text WWW browser with enhancements

emacs-w3m-emacs21-1.2.5 - Simple front-end to w3m for emacs20

flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.10_1 - A GPL standalone Flash (TM) plugin for Mozilla web browser

de-linux-netscape-6.2.2 - Linux Netscape 6 suite (German)

ticker.app-0.5.0 - Ticker dockapp for Window Maker

w3-2.2.26 - WWW browser based on emacs/mule

fr-linux-netscape-6.2.2 - Linux Netscape 6 suite (French)

uf-view-1.4.2 - A gTK+ viewer for the User Friendly and several other popular comics

emacs-w3m-xemacs21-mule-1.2.5 - Simple front-end to w3m for emacs20

emacs-w3m-emacs20-1.2.5 - Simple front-end to w3m for emacs20

httrack-3.10 - Easy-to-use offline browser utility and website copier

netraider-0.0.2 - Fast, small, free and nice web browser for Unix

viewml-0.21_1 - An open source web browser targeted at the embedded platforms

barque-0.1.2_2 - Yet another GNOME Web browser

cheetah-0.05 - GTK+ based light-weight web browser

ko-mozilla-klp-0.8.20010219 - Mozilla Korean Language Pack (KLP)

ja-mozilla-jlp-0.9.9,1 - Mozilla Japanese Language Pack (JLP)

ja-netscape-navigator-linux-4.79 - Netscape web-surfboard with Japanese resources

ja-w3m-0.3 - A pager/text-based WWW browser with Japanese support

gxmlviewer-1.3.3 - An xmlviewer with a netscape plugin, and now a bonobo control as well

zh_TW-netscape-communicator-4.76 - Big5 localized Netscape

gkrellscore-0.0.2 - Plugin to GKrellM that displays current sports scores

zh_TW-netscape-navigator-4.76 - Big5 localized Netscape

ja-linux-netscape-6.2.2 - Linux Netscape 6 suite (Japanese)

dillo-0.6.4_1 - A fast, small graphical Web browser built upon GTK+

djvuplugin-0.9 - Netscape plugin that views AT&T DjVu images

encompass-0.4.5_1 - A lightweight web browser for the Gnome Desktop Environment

flashplugin-0.4.3 - An implementation of Macromedia Flash plugin for Netscape

hotjava-3.0 - Sun's Hotjava web browser

ko-netscape-navigator-linux-4.79 - Netscape web-surfboard with Korean resources

links-0.97.p9,1 - Lynx-like text WWW browser

linux-netscape-communicator-4.79 - Linux Netscape Communicator suite

linux-netscape-navigator-4.79 - Linux Netscape navigator web-surfboard

linux-opera-6.0.20020412_1 - A blazingly fast, full-featured, standards-compliant browser

mmosaic-3.7.2 - Web browser based in part on Mosaic, but with many modernizations

mozilla-1.0.rc1,1 - The open source, standards compliant web browser

mozilla-embedded-1.0.rc1,1 - The embeddable component of mozilla communicator web-surfboard

mozilla-headers-1.0.rc1,1 - Header files for mozilla communicator web-surfboard

netscape-gold-3.04 - Netscape ver 3 web-surfboard (gold)

netscape-remote-1.0_1 - Utility to pass commands to running netscape process

netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07 - Netscape wrapper to avoid multiple invocation and more

skipstone-0.8.1 - Web browser that uses Mozilla's renderer

linux-mozilla-0.9.9_1 - Web browser, HTML editor and IRC client for use with Linux plugins

logjam-3.0.0 - A GTK interface to user journals on www.livejournal.com

wb0-000324 - Web browser for svgalib which can show pictures

wmnetselect-0.8 - WindowMaker Netscape launcher to display urls from X selection

bkmrkconv-1.10 - Netscape bookmarks.html converter

gtkhtml-1.0.2_1 - Lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine

html2ps-A4-1.0_1 - HTML to PostScript converter

flashplayer-0.4.10_1 - GPL standalone Flash (TM) player

linux-realplayer-8.cs2 - Linux RealPlayer 8.0 from RealNetworks

ca-roots-1.0_1 - A list of SSL CA root certificates

bmsync-0.2.0 - A bookmark converter and synchronizer for NN, KDE and MSIE

p4db-2.01 - Web/Perforce Browser

plucker-1.1.13 - An offline HTML viewer for PalmOS devices

yaucg-0.11 - A bash Script which will get you the today's Userfriendly.org Picture

XmHTML-1.1.7_1 - A Motif widget set for displaying HTML 3.2 documents

p4.el-8.5 - Simple Perforce-Emacs Integration

retawq-0.0.6_1 - An interactive, multi-threaded web browser for text terminals

w3m-0.3 - A pager/text-based WWW browser

w3-4.0.p46 - WWW browser based on emacs/mule

w3m-m17n-0.3+20020311 - A pager/text-based WWW browser with multilingualization support

urlview-0.9 - URL extractor/launcher

arena-i18n-beta3b - Experimental HTML 3 browser, supports math and style sheets.

ja-chimera-1.70p1 - X/Athena World-Wide Web client + Japanese patch

linux-netscape-6.2.2_1 - Linux Netscape suite

mosaic-2.7b5 - A World Wide Web browser.

ru-netscape-4.7 - Tune netscape4 to work with russian (koi8-r) fonts

p5-ParallelUA-2.50 - Perl5 Parallel LWP User Agent for WWW access

p5-HTML-QuickCheck-1.0b1 - A simple and fast HTML syntax checking package for perl 4 and perl 5

amaya-french-dict.tgz - French dictionary for the Amaya browser/page composer

amaya-english-dict.tgz - English dictionary for the Amaya browser/page composer

amaya-french-dict.tgz - French dictionary for the Amaya browser/page composer

amaya-english-dict.tgz - English dictionary for the Amaya browser/page composer

Netscape Flash Plugin - A Netscape plugin to view Macromedia-Shockwave-Flash files. {x,GPL}

Mnemonic {x,GPL}

Mozilla - Webbrowser for X11 derived from Netscape Communicator {x,MPL}

Amaya - Ttest-bed browser/authoring tool of the W3C {x,BSL}

plucker - Web browser for Palm Pilot with Linux conduit {GPL}

http-tiny - Tiny portable http C library and raw client {Artistic}

bookmarker - WWW based bookmark manager {GPL}

Cache and Cookie Washer (cardboard sleeve)

Fortify - Provides full strength, 128-bit encryption facilities to Netscape browsers

nss - Netscape Startup Script. Script to handle Netscape launches. [X] {freely distributable}

Fortify - Provides full strength, 128-bit encryption facilities to Netscape browsers {x,free to use but restricted}

XSwallow - plugin for Unix netscape allows associating X progs with MIME types {x,unknown}

plugger-4.0 - A multimedia front-end plugin for Mozilla

Netscape Communicator - All-in-one browser and communications suite {x,free to use but restricted}

Netscape audio plugin - Plugin to play wav,snd,voc files {x,freely distributable}

Grail [X] {unknown}

Express - modular www browser {x,unknown}

libmmoss - Provides Java sound in Linux version of Netscape Communicator {PD}

Jazilla - A port of Mozilla into Java {MPL}

Applications and Utilities

libxpg4-ns-3.3 - Libxpg4(aout) for Netscape Browser, against the browser's locale bug

p5-GtkHTML-0.7006_1 - The Gtk HTML module of Gtk-Perl

p5-GtkXmHTML-0.7008 - The HTML widget module of Gtk-Perl

libghttp-1.0.9 - GNOME http client library

HTML::QuickCheck - Fast and simple HTML validation. [Perl] {oss}

p5-HTML-Stream-1.49 - Perl5 HTML output stream class, and some markup utilities

libwww - General-purpose client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32) {OpenSource}

SGMLS - Classes for use with the SGMLS and NSGMLS parsers. (SGML stands for Standard Generlized Markup Language. HTML is almost an example of an SGML.) [Perl] {oss}

The libwww Bundle - Contains eight big module sets related to the World Wide Web: HTML, LWP, MIME, WWW, HTTP, URI, File, and Font. See their entries elsewhere in this document. If you install the entire libwww bundle, you'll get them all. Do it. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::AsSubs - Functions that construct an HTML syntax tree. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Base - Methods for building HTML tags. Obsoleted by many other modules. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Embperl - Lets you embed Perl code in your HTML documents. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Entities - Convert strings to/from valid HTML strings, which replace funky characters with special glyphs called HTML entities. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::FormatPS - Convert HTML to PostScript. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::FormatText - Convert HTML to plain text. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::HTML32 - .dtd - The HTML definition. This isn't a module, just a plain document that you might find useful. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::ISOlat1.sgml - The ISO Latin 1 definition. This isn't a module, just a plain document that you might find useful. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Parse - Parse HTML text. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Parser - SGML parser class. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::PHTML - Embed Perl in HTML; suited for FastCGI and Apache/mod_perl. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::Simple - Yet another way of creating HTML. Not as robust as the libwww library. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::TreeBuilder - Parser that builds an HTML syntax tree. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::dtd2pm.pl - A Perl library file (not a module!) that generates the HTML parser in Perl automatically, by reading the HTML Document Type Definition (see HTML::HTML32.dtd). Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Headers - A class encapsulating HTTP message headers. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Message - A base class encapsulating HTTP messages. Used by HTTP::Request and HTTP::Response. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Negotiate - Implements the HTTP content negotiation algorithm, which lets browser and web server mutually agree on a content representation. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Request - Class encapsulating HTTP requests. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Response - Class encapsulating HTTP responses. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTTP::Status - Processes status codes sent over HTTP, e.g. "403 Forbidden", "4040 Not Found", or "402 Payment required". Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::UserAgent - Code that lets your program behave like a Web browser. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Netscape::History - Parses the history files that Netscape leaves behind in your home directory. You did know about those, right? [Perl] {oss}

Web-Based Bookmarks - From what I have found the what little web-based bookmarking programs availible never seem to work just right. The point of Web-Based Bookmarks is to try to evolve into something that is easy to use.

HTML::Element - Class for objects that represent HTML elements. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

HTML::LinkExtor - Extracts links from an HTML document. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Libraries and Functions

(The following links to subjects at this site retain your personalized selections.)

WWW Servers - Respond to HTTP requests

WWW authoring - Creating HTML, CGI

WWW robots and proxies - Automatic processing of HTTP requests

Up to: World Wide Web - HTTP, HTML, standards, browsers, transfer utilities, servers, et al.

freshmeat.net : Topic : Internet : WWW/HTTP : Browsers

Www - - WEB utilities (browers, HTTP servers, etc).

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/www/browsers/ - interactive web browsers Also see the Arena project at http://www.yggdrasil.com/Products/Arena .

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/www/browsers/amaya/ - W3C's Amaya testbed browser/editor

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/www/browsers/chimera/ - the Chimera WWW browser

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/www/browsers/mosaic/ - various versions of Mosaic

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/www/browsers/qweb/ - SGML Web browser supporting progressive rendering, style sheets, tables, forms

(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/apps/www/plugins/ - freeware plugins and symbionts for Netscape