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:

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