World Wide Web Browsers

Created: 10/19/94, Modified: 11/5/97.

See also: [WWW Page], [Home (E)], [Home (J)].

Indices
NCSA Mosaic and Its Descendants
Netscape
Microsoft Internet Explorer
HotJava
Browsers with VRML Viewer
Text-Based Browsers
Macintosh Browsers, including General Information, Specific Information
Other Browsers
Miscellaneous Information on Browsers

Indices

Yahoo Server: WWW Browsers
Browsers That Will Work with HotWired, including information on Mozilla (Netscape), Mosaic, Lynx, Spyglass Mosaic, Emacs-W3, and many others.
See WYSIWYG Editors/Browsers for HTML page.
Mosaic-related OEM Guide by Soum (in Japanese), including information on Netscape, Arena, Spyglass Enhanced Mosaic, Air Mosaic, NCSA Mosaic and tkWWW.

NCSA Mosaic and Its Descendants

NCSA Mosaic home page
Brief Papers on Mosaic and HTTP at IIJ
X Mosaic
- X Mosaic home page at NCSA
  - X Mosaic Documentation, including
    - X Mosaic User's Guide
    - NCSA Mosaic Command-Line Flags
    - FAQ of Mosaic
    - Mosaic 2.0 Quick FAQ: This or This
- X Mosaic Documents at IIJ (in PostScript)
- Patched Binaries for BSDI1.1, FreeBSD2.0 and SunOS (until 2.6b1)
- Mosaic-L10N Patch: Mosaic-l10n+ Patch at KDD Lab. (until 2.6b1 patch)
X Mosaic for Linux (Japanese character version)
- Mosaic 2.4, 2.5 L10N & 2.6 L10N

Mac Mosaic -- See this in Macintosh Browsers section.

IIJ Mosaic Directory

Spyglass: Enhanced Mosaic

Press release: University of Illinois Assigns All Future Commercial Licensing Rights for NCSA Mosaic to Spyglass, Inc. -- IBM, FTP Software, O'Reilly and Associates and Firefox Sign Agreements with Spyglass; Will Distribute Enhanced NCSA Mosaic to Their Customers
Press release: NEC Corp. to Distribute Japanese-Language Version of Enhanced NCSA Mosaic Graphical Browser for the Internet -- Signs OEM Agreement with Spyglass
IBM WebExplorer -- Better than Netscape?

AIR Mosaic Express for Windows by SPRY, Inc.

How to obtain a demo copy of AIR Mosaic Express 1.1, including special features of AIR Mosaic

InfoMosaic: A Japanese version of Mosaic from Fujitsu

InfoMosaic Manual in Japanese by Fujitsu
What's Different from NCSA Mosaic? (in Japanese)

WebWorks Mosaic, which was previously called GWHIS Viewer -- a commercial version of Mosaic.

Examining Mosaic -- An article in Internet World Magazine

Mosaic TueV for Ultrix, Alpha OS, SGI, Linux etc.: WWW and FTP

Netscape

is a commercial browser, available for Macintosh and other computers -- Probably the best selection for Macintosh, currently.

Home Pages: In English and In Japanese!
Plug-Ins
- Plug-Ins for Macintosh
``Remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."'' (From ReadMe)
The FAQ
The Handbook
- English version: Index and Table of Contents
- Japanese version: Index and Table of Contents
Japanese Documents at Toshiba Info. Sys.
International Version: FTP Info
- Atlas (Ver 3 Beta): ftp.netscape.com
- Mirror Sites in Japan: Riken, NTT, Keio U., SunSite.SUT and TITECH
- How to read Japanese Page on NetScape of Mac
- netscape-j.info.eng File -- ``How to Access WWW servers in Japan using Mac Browser 'Netscape'''
Netscape-specific Features
- Extensions to HTML 2
- Extensions to HTML 3
- Frames: An Introduction
- Controlling Document Backgrounds
- Dynamic Documents -- Slooooow animation!
- Server Push
Netscape and Director
- Multimedia, Internet technologies tie knot, from MacWEEK -- Multimedia Extension of Netscape, etc. (including Macromedia Director Player)
- Macromedia and Netscape Combine Technologies to Bring True Multimedia to the Internet
- MacroMedia Press Release: NETSCAPE AND MACROMEDIA COMBINE TECHNOLOGIES TO BRING TRUE MULTIMEDIA TO THE INTERNET
Netscape will put Director into browser, from MacWEEK
Licence Information
Yahoo Server: NetScape
Mozilla is Here! in slack OnLine!
Netscape press release on Mozilla in slack OnLine!
Mozilla Museum
An Anti-Netscape Page
Japanese Version (obsolete!)
- Japanese Patch (Warning!: Information in this item is out of date.):
  - You can use Kanji without using ResEdit using this.
  - Another Patch -- Replace xlat resource using ResEdit (See the licence agreement bofore using this.)
  - A(n old) Patch for Displaying Japanese (SJIS code only) by H. Yamana -- This version can be used with Delegate and FontPatchin'. Kanji code can be converted to SJIS using Delegate. This version uses Osaka font, but it can be replaced (by Chu-gossic, for example) using FontPatchin'.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer Home Page
Complete List of HTML Tags (extended by Microsoft) (TOC)

HotJava

HotJava Home Page -- ``a dynamic, extensible WWW browser that showcases many of the capabilities of the Java(tm) language''
- A Mirror of the Home Page at GLOCOM
Yahoo Server: Languages: Java (contains links to SUN only -- 6/28/95)
FAQs (HotJava and Java)
- A HotJava FAQ
- Java Programming FAQ
- Java Programming Tutorial
- Java FAQ: In English and In Japanese (Plain text version)
Documentation
Presentations Using HotJava
Applet Examples
- Cool Applets
- Applets out of SUN
- George Cotes Performance Works
- The ``Hello World'' Application
- A Searcher
- SUN Home Page -- An Example of Animation Designated by the User
From News, etc.
- Market odds of "Java wins on Internet" at 78 to 82%, from comp.infosystems.www.misc
- Announcing the Java/HotJava Alpha2 Technology Release for Windows NT 3.5 & EBT CREATES FREE DYNAWEB APPLET FOR HOT JAVA USERS
- Sun's HotJava in The Virtual Mirror
- Modern Web Programming, including Applets and Agents, ...
- Java as a Mobile Code System
License Information
- Source License of Alpha 3 Version
- Binary License of Alpha 2 Version

Browsers with VRML Viewer

WebSpace
- FAQ
- WebSpace Home Page at Silicon Graphics
- WebSpace at Template Graphics Software (WebSpace for Windows NT)
  - An FTP Mirror
- WebSpace Downloading for SUN Solaris
WorldView -- A VRML Browser (works with Netscape) by InterVista
- WorldView and VRML Technology Information
- WorldView FAQ (Under construction on 6/24/95)
- WorldView for Windows (3.1, 95 and NT)
VRweb
- Mailing Archive
  - ANNOUNCE -- VRweb VRML Browser Project (from Wired Magazine)
  - Re: ANNOUNCE -- VRweb VRML Browser Project (from Wired Magazine)
  - ...
- Beta Announcement
- FTP Site, contains VRweb for Linux, Irix, AlphaOS, and Solaris

Text-Based Browsers

Lynx
Emacs-W3 -- An Emacs-based Browser (with an exploring robot)

Macintosh Browsers

General Information

Current State of Macintosh Browsers (inaccessible?)
The Current State of Macintosh WWW Browsers (in Japanese)
Macintosh Gopher, Web Setting Manual by H. Yamana (in Japanese)
- Original HTML Versions: Newest version, Periodically updated version and the Original Text Version
- A version in HTML (older)
TidBits #267 -- Special Issue on Mac WWW Browsers

Specific Information

Netscape
MacWeb -- The best point of MacWeb is its lightness.
- Its Latest Version and Its Directory -- Japanese (SJIS) is available without patching. (But you have to touch the pop-up menu (and select Chinese 8 Bit Characters) for selecting fonts every time you open this application!
- See the description of Delegate for viewing Japanese characters except SJIS.
- Review of MacWeb in TidBITS
Mac Mosaic
- MacMosaic Documents at IIJ
- Yahoo Server: Mac Mosaic
- FTP Sites
  - NCSA -- crowded
  - SunSite -- old!
  - MiriWorld
  - Luth
  - IIJ -- old!
- On Displaying Japanese
  - A Patch -- Replace xlat resource using ResEdit
TCP/Connect II by InterCon -- fastest Web browser for Mac (?)
- FTP Site
Samba -- A Macintosh Brwoser
- Samba is available from Info-Mac Archive, but its name is not ''Samba...'' but ...

Other Browsers

CandleWeb -- ``The purpose of CandleWeb, Å (awe) and Å Composer is to provide a software architecture for efficiently implementing educational and commercial presentations using real-time interactivity and fast graphics in animations, all made available integrated with the Web.
WWW Clients for Windows (in Japanese)
Netscape is available not only on Macintosh but also on X Windows (DEC Alpha, HPPA, MIPS, RS6000, Sparc) and MS Windows.
MacWeb and WinWeb from EINet
I-Comm
- Web: This or this
- FTP Sites: NetCom or Best.com
- FAQ: NetCom or Best.com
Arena -- An HTML 3 Browser
- Info at CERN
- Mosaic-related OEM Guide by Soum (in Japanese)
- Why we can't support Arena Ever!? (In Japanese)
Cello -- ?
- Yahoo Server: Cello (Nothing in this list was available on 11/11/94!)
- The Cello Internet Browser -- An overview
- FAQ of Cello
Viola -- ?
SlipKnot -- ``a Windows-based graphical WWW browser which does NOT require SLIP or PPP or TCP/IP'' (from Yahoo)
Quarterdeck Mosaic for MS Word on Windows
Internet Works
- FTP Site
WWWinda -- Constructing a browser and tools as collection of small applications. (``Compound applications are fabricated out of flock of inter-communicating sub-application tools.'')
- Gutfreund, Y-S., et al.: WWWinda: An Orchestration Service for WWW Browsers and Accessories, 2nd Int. WWW Conference.
W3a -- A conceptual predecessor of WWWinda (?)
- Bos, B.: W3a; WWW Applets API proposal
OmniWeb on NEXTSTEP
Midas WWW First Release (11/16/92) -- ``Future versions will hopefully also support graphics and allow editing of HTML text.''

Miscellaneous Information on Browsers

WWW Browsers that can display Japanese, including information on XMosaic, Emacs-W3, tkWWW, and Line Mode Browsers.
New Product Announcements, including information on WebSpace, HotJava, WaxWeb, ...
WebWax -- Interactive 3D Cinema
- Home Page
- News at World-Wide Web Federal Consortium
Patching for Using Japanese on Mosaic and Netscape:
- The Original Version
- HTML Version in TRC
WWW on Apple Newton -- ``Successfull Cooperation between Digital CEC Karlsruhe and Telecooperation Office ( University of Karlsruhe), Germany''
More than just networking at Internet World (from MacWEEK) -- Joint ventures: Netscape and Secure-HTTP, and Spyglass and ...

Y. Kanada (Send comments to kanada@trc.rwcp.or.jp)