A Memo on WWW Buniness
Created: 9/24/94, Modified: 1/17/95.
See also:
[Parent page],
[Kanada's WWW page],
[Kanada's home page in English],
[Kanada's home page in Japanese].
WWW Connection Services
Writable (bidirectional) connection is necessary for active WWW users.
However, current most services are read-only.
- Read-only Connection
- Full-range Service
(including WWW, Gopher and FTP) is supplied by
- America Online and ... in USA
- IIJ and
Fujitsu in Japan
- Only Mail and News are supplied by
- CompuServe and ... in USA.
- Nifty Serve and ... in Japan.
- Writable Connection
- Batch Access is supplied by
- On-line Access is supplied by
Information Supplies
- Original Information
- Secondary Information: Results of Filtering
- Manually Filtered Information
- Automatically Filtered Information
- Conference List generated from fj.meetings
(Sato in JAIST)
Tools
WYSIWYG HTML editors are necessary for non-skilled users to connect bidirectionally to the network. WYSIWYG editors must be a browser, because, otherwise, it is not really WYSIWYG. (You cannot follow a link if it is not a browser.) However, there is probably only one WYSIWYG editor/browser, tkWWW, and its function is not enough.
- Browsers
- Browsers for Unix
- NCSA
X Mosaic is free.
- NTT supplies a free patch of X Mosaic for Japanese.
- InfoWeb: A Japanese version of X Mosaic is sold by Fujitsu at 5,000 yen.
- Netscape
is going to sold by Mosaic Communications.
- Browsers for MS Windows: WinMosaic (NCSA), WinWeb (EINet),
InfoWeb (Fujitsu), Netscape (Mosaic Communications)
- Browsers for Macintosh
- MacMosaic (NCSA) and MacWeb (EINet) are free.
- InfoWeb: Fujitsu will sell a Japanese version of MacMosaic.
- Netscape
is going to sold by Mosaic Communications.
- See this for detail.
- Filters (including Robots or Spiders)
- HTML Generators (including WYSIWYG browsers)
Consuntations and Assistance
Y. Kanada (Send comments
to kanada@trc.rwcp.or.jp)