Few technological advances can claim to have revolutionalized the way people think more
profoundly than the multimedia browser. It has taken our world by storm, allows us to do
nearly everything better, faster, and more efficiently. Its echo is still being felt globally
and its impact on humankind is still being analysed. This Website is devoted to the graphical
browsers that allow us to feel more visually attuned to the World Wide Web. This our personal looking
glass to cyberspace allows us to see literally into the future. (Where else can you see in real time
what tomorrow already knows.) You will find opportunities to experiment with the current flock of viewers including those that may seem obscure
in your day to day travels. The SHUTTLE FOR MULTIMEDIA VIEWERS will be updated regularly so keep your viewers on scan.
Here you will find the pioneering visual browser that started it all. There is much to check out here as the site has a Cool Stuff Link to
assist you in maximizing your use of the Mosaic Browser. Definately worth checking out first hand.
With Your Eyes Closed name the first Browser to Come to Mind when you Think of Internet.
If Your like most of Us You Thought of Netscape. (Circa 1998) This company has done more to
advance Browser based technology than any other single company on the Web today. It has
recently released its Netscape 4.0 Browser For Free and will soon release the source code for
their Netscape Browser 5.0. This could be not more timely as Electronic Commerce comes of Age.
Netscape's Browser has become the endorsed standard for secure electronic transactions which
when coupled with the release of the source code will have developers far and
wide clamoring to get their hooks in it. Perhaps not surprising when you consider that the
company created the SSL - Secure Socket Layer which is the backbone of Electronic Commerce.
With Netscape's Communicator 'Web Suite' holding its own as well as Netscape's Enterprise
Servers products maintaining their market share they are able to continue focus on what they
do best namely Platform Independent Open Standard Internet based Products designed for Robust,
Secure, Scalable to Enterprise Environments.
Taking the experience gained from leveraging some 90 percent of the desktop market Microsoft
has gained a profile for their Browser Second Only to Netscape. A Incredible Marketing Machine
the company has achieved this as a relative newcomer to the Internet. Although attempts by
Microsoft to bring their own Standards to the Internet have met Heavy Resistance (due to the
Fear that they might Respawn a Revival of the Dark Ages of Computing where Systems could not co-exist
and Inter-Communication was something of a myth)The Internet Explorer Browser has been packaged
with their Operating Systems For Free something that Netscape only Recently began to offer. This
has Allowed their Browser to gain acceptance with its users. Coupling this with some
impressive proprietary technologies such as Active X they continue to enlarge their user
base. These technologies bring great power to the Browser unfortunately with a equal dosage
of risk to the user as recent security bulletins have pointed out. Arguably these issues
will be ironed out in future releases but if the endorsement of Netscape as the Electronic
Commerce Standard is any indication of the seriousness of the problems then users of the
Internet Explorer Browser will have to wait.
Spyglass has the ability to add the web to any eletronic device. Whatever the device be it Telephone, Television,
or Network Computer the device becomes Internet enabled. If You Can Imagine Browsing your Telephone for your hits or mail messages
then check out Spyglass.
If you have Trumpet Winsock and are short on the Memory to Run another Browser then you might want to check out Cello it is a fully
graphical browser minus the hig overhead bells and whistles. It is capable of running on a 386 SX-16 with only 2 Meg of Ram although not suggested.
It has a unique peek mode used to preview a site before diving both feet first.
Here one finds a alternative choice for the Windows 95/3.1 and Mac Web Surfer. These Browsers are available as part of
TradeWave's VPI offering but keep a eye here or inquire for current releases of these Browsers.
Here is a full blown browser created entirely in Emacs-Lisp that is available for all flavours or Unix,
Windows 95, NT, AmigaDOS, OS/2, and VMS. Tooled for use with Emacs the powerhouse editor it allows for
transparent use with standard Emacs mail and news packages. Worth another look at Emacs.
Not to be outdone here is a WebExplorer for OS/2 users that features the usual Multi-Media abilities of familiar Browsers.
Here can be found a previous release of Netscape Navigator 2.02 designed for those running OS/2. Although definately a
older release this maybe a alternative for those using OS/2.
Those using Unix and X Windows have a friend here in Chimera a graphical browser that allows you to do the usual
work on the web. Browse, Ftp, Gopher, and such source code is available so click here to try it out.
Opera comes to the Internet via Norway and is a very tightly coded lean browser that
could prove useful for those wishing to test their developments using the HTML standard. It
downloads at a mere 1 meg and runs on a 386 or higher. Might be worth using if you are a
Internet Developer Interested in conforming to the HTML specifications. A evaluation copy
is available for download so why not check it out.
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