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Currently, the part of the Internet that has
the highest profile is the World Wide Web.
As it is the most recent addition to the
Internet it has taken advantage of faster
network connections and more powerful
computers by having a much more media
rich environment allowing Web pages to
be splattered with graphics and text.
Introduced back in 1990 by CERN scientists
who wanted a better way to share
information between themselves, the number
of Web sites out there has exploded,
with now literally millions and millions of
pages covering every aspect of human
behaviour for you to look at
The Web works by using a special language
that is used to 'describe' how a
Web page should look. Your Web browser
reads this description and does its best to
produce the page. This language is called
HTML, or Hyper Text Markup Language.
When this was first invented by the people
at CERN it was very basic, allowing simple
textual links between pages and basic
positioning of images on these pages.
HTML is now in its third revision, with
many of the new commands being introduced
by the now very rich NetScope people.
More recent versions of the language
allow better text and graphic formatting,
and all manner of gadgets can be added
to pages allowing users to interact with
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Web pages. The latest version of HTML
allows complex tables to be defined, giving
Web designers even greater flexibility in how
their pages should appear. The latest addition
to HTML are frames which allow you to
add mini Web pages that act like menus to
the main Web page display, giving the user
short cuts to the various parts of your Web
site. Unfortunately, no Amiga Web browser
supports frames but they are not too far
behind.
Currently available for Amiga Web browsing
is AMosaic and the much superior
iBrowse. Both are available via anonymous
FTP from ftp.omnipresence.com in the
pub/amigo directory. !Browse is planned to
be a commercial browser and only demo
versions of it are available for you to use -
these will normally stop working after 30
days of use. This will then leave you with
only AMosaic to play with, which is a great
deal slower and is not as stable in use.
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Things are looking up on the Amiga Web
browser side of things as, currently, I know of
10 projects. Along with AMosaic iBrowse and
Mind Walker all of which are MUI-based
browsers, there is AWeb, Hyperion, Juggler,
Step 4, Web Link, ALynx and P'Jami. The last
is the most interesting of the lot as it is
actually port of a larger project involved with
http://www.amiga_de - home of Amiga Technologies, first place to get any new news
http://www,cucupargiamiga.html - home of the Web directory. The place to find new Amiga links
http://wym.omnipresence.comiamigai - the original Amiga home page, home of iBrowse and AMosaic
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/-eeual3/walker.html - want to see the new Amiga, find out all about it here
http://www.idg.co.ukiamigacomp/ - it's our home page, due to a bug in iBrowse 4a you need to turn off the internal image decoder
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