Macintosh browsers
NOTE: These browsers require that you have SLIP, PPP
or other TCP/IP networking on your PC. SLIP or PPP can be accomplished
over phone lines. You can do this one of two ways: using a
proper SLIP account, which requires the active cooperation of your
network provider or educational institution (see
Frank Hecker's
guide to SLIP and PPP access; URL is <URL:http://access.digex.net/~hecker/>
; ), or using
The Internet Adapter, a product
which simulates SLIP through your dialup Unix shell account. If you
only have non-Unix based dialup shell access, or have no PC
at home, your best option at this time is to run
Lynx on the VMS (or Unix, or...) system you call,
or telnet to a browser if you cannot do so.
-
Mosaic for Macintosh
- From NCSA. Full
featured. Available by anonymous FTP from
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the directory Mac/Mosaic.
-
Netscape
- From Netscape Communications Corp
(URL is: http://home.netscape.com/info/index.html ).
Downloads and displays images incrementally while you read pages,
which also display incrementally, making it the best browser at
the time of this writing for those who connect to the
web via modems. Also supports tables in a standard manner,
in addition to many extensions to
HTML, not all of which conform to the
proposed standard. Netscape
is a commercial product but can be evaluated free of charge for an unlimited
period of time by individuals.
The 16-bit version works under both OS/2 and Windows.
Available by anonymous FTP from ftp.mcom.com in the
netscape subdirectory. See Netscape's web site for information
about mirror sites.
- Samba
- From CERN. VERY basic.
Available by anonymous FTP from
info.cern.ch in the directory /ftp/pub/www/bin as the file mac.
- MacWeb
- From EINet.
Has features that Mosaic lacks; lacks some features that Mosaic has.
Available by anonymous FTP from ftp.einet.net in the
directory einet/mac/macweb.
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