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There is a good number of Web browsers available, many of them free of charge. Some, like NCSA's Mosaic and Netscape Communications' Netscape Navigator, offer a very easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) and are available for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Unix X Windows systems.
Full-screen, character-based browsers like Lynx for Unix and Charlotte for CMS can't display graphics and don't have all the capabilities of GUI browsers, but they still provide a very effective and user-friendly way of navigating through the World Wide Web.
This segment of the seminar will demonstrate how to use Netscape and Mosaic. It will review the pull down menus, how to navigate, open URLs, view HTML source files, save and use bookmarks and hotlists, show configuration settings, and briefly cover viewers and helper applications.
X Windows versions of Mosaic and Netscape, as well as Lynx, are also available on tigger and icarus general purpose Unix computers. CMS users can use Charlotte, a.k.a. WWW on UICVM.
Departmental PC labs like the Mathlab, SCAILAB, Sociology, CBA and EECS labs run the above browsers and/or other programs suited for their systems.
Netscape is included in the Network Services Kit (NS-Kit), distributed by the Academic Computer Center. It is also available from the Center's anonymous FTP archive at ftp://ftp.uic.edu/pub/nskit/. Netscape's official home page is at http://home.netscape.com.
Mosaic can be obtained directly from NCSA, though its home page at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software.
For a complete list of browsers and their homes, visit http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html.
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Last Revision: July 11, 1995