The WWW Client
The
World-Wide Web client is a hypertext
multi-media document viewer which supports retrieval of documents
through a variety of mechanisms. Most can retrieve documents from
an FTP server,
a Gopher server,
an NNTP server,
a WAIS server, or
a WWW server.
It's absolutely imperative that you understand the wide variety
of WWW clients that are possible:
- A graphical capable browser (such as Mosaic)
- A text-only browser (such as Lynx)
- A programmatic retriever (such as a robot)
- A voice synthesis/recognition based browser
Of course, all but the last one have been implemented already.
You should consider all of these clients while producing documents.
A fairly complete listing of
WWW clients is maintained by Cern.
There is an entry in the
On-line dictionary of computing, a
Frequently Asked Questions file and too many Web-related newsgroups:
Paul Chamberlain