Welcome to ArcWeb

A WWW Browser for RISC OS computers

Arcweb is a World Wide Web browser.

ArcWeb is a World Wide Web browser for Acorn RISC OS computers. Although ArcWeb does not provide any of the functionality required to fetch documents (over networks or down a modem) itself, it acts as an integrated front end to the user, communicating with utilities which perform document retrievals and graphics format conversions using the RISC OS Window Manager message system. Since ArcWeb would be useless without these fetchers & renderers, three helper applications are provided !ArcwebLcl, !ArcwebImg and !ArcwebTCP. In fact, in order to view this document with ArcWeb, ArcwebLcl will have retrieved it. ArcwebLcl may be represented by the icon on the icon bar (unless the icon bar icon is switched off) and is used for viewing files on the local filing system. ArcWebTCP is used for viewing resources whose name space is within http, WAIS, gopher or FTP, with Acorn TCP/IP. The first is supported natively, whereas the other three require a proxy such as that found at www.hensa.ac.uk.

This is a hypertext link to the test page. Under a default desktop palette, the text is black and the hypertext is blue. This can be changed, if you wish, in the configuration dialogue box, but not in this version. You will notice a much higher quality of rendition if you use a screen mode with 256 or more colours. Most HTML tags are handled. The major exception to this is the FORM element and its related elements. You can try the anchored jump to the index page. Let's test launching an application