W3 Clients
These programs allow you to access the WWW from your own computer.
See also: other W3 software .
Email based browsers
- Agora
- Based on the line-mode browser. If you cannot have full access to the Internet. (beta)
Terminal based browsers
-
Line Mode Browser
- This program gives W3 readership to anyone with a
dumb terminal. A general purpose information retrieval tool.
- "Lynx" full screen browser
- This is a hypertext browser for vt100s
using full screen, arrow keys, highlighting, etc.
- Tom Fine's perlWWW
- A tty-based browser written in perl.
- For VMS
- Dudu Rashty's full screen client based on VMS's SMG screen
management routines.
- Emacs w3-mode
- W3 browse mode for emacs.
Uses multiple fonts when used with Lemacs or Epoch.
See doc .
PC Running Windows
-
Cello
- Browser from Cornell LII
- Mosaic for Windows
- From NCSA.
- WinWeb
- EINet's
full-feature World-Wide Web client
- GWHIS for MS Windows
- Commercialized version of NCSA Mosaic from
Quadralay Inc.
- Netscape
- Commercial browser
- Galahad for BIX
- An off-line access tool for
the on-line
Byte Information eXchange, that also includes a Web browser with forms capability.
- Quarterdeck Mosaic
- and more on Quarterdeck
- SlipKnot
- SlipKnot, a graphical World Wide Web browser specifically designed for
Microsoft Windows users who have UNIX shell accounts with their service
providers, has been released as shareware by MicroMind, Inc.
Macintosh
- Mosaic for Macintosh
- From NCSA. Full featured.
- Samba
- From CERN.
Basic.
- MacWeb
- EINet's
full-feature World-Wide Web client
- Netscape
- Commercial browser
X-Windows
-
NCSA Mosaic for X
- Browser using X11/Motif.
- GWHIS Viewer for X
- Commercialized version of NCSA Mosaic from
Quadralay Inc.
- tkWWW Browser/Editor for X11
- Browser/Editor for X11.
(Beta)
- MidasWWW Browser
- From Tony Johnson.
(Beta,
works well.)
- Chimera
- Browser using Athena (doesn't require Motif)
- "ViolaWWW" Browser for X11
- Browser for X11.
(Beta, unsupported)
- Arena
- HTML3 browser for X11. (prerelease, supported)
- Netscape
- Commercial browser
NeXTStep
-
Browser-Editor on the NeXT
- A browser/editor for NeXTStep.
Allows wysiwyg hypertext editing.
Requires NeXTStep 3.0
- OmniWeb
- Working browser from Omni.
Freely available.
VM
- Albert
- A full-screen WWW client for VM systems by David Nessl,
University of Florida. Available from ftp://www.ufl.edu/pub/vm/www.
(VM is an IBM mainframe operating system).
Unreleased or Unsupported
-
Browser on CERNVM
- A full-screen browser for VM. Nonexistant.
Use the line mode www. Might arrive suddenly one day.
- Dave Ragget's Browser
- Unreleased.
For X11,
(later PC?)
- Erwise
- X-windows early browser. Unsupported, now of historical.
- NJIT's Browser
Assumes a character-grid terminal with cursor
addressing, and provides a full-screen interface to the web.
webmaster@w3.org, 29 March 1995