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<TITLE>Acorn Internet: Using the Web Browser</TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word 2.04z">
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<BODY>
<P>
<TABLE WIDTH=100%>
<TR><TD>
<BODY bgcolor="#ffffff"><A NAME="_Toc401045851"><FONT SIZE=6>8 Using the <A NAME="Web">Web</A> browser</FONT></A>
</TD><TD ALIGN="RIGHT"><A HREF="useml"><IMG SRC="MiscImages/PREV" WIDTH="36" HEIGHT="36" BORDER="0"></A><A HREF="../Cover"><IMG SRC="MiscImages/START" WIDTH="36" HEIGHT="36" BORDER="0"></A><A HREF="prelms"><IMG SRC="MiscImages/CONTS" WIDTH="36" HEIGHT="36" BORDER="0"></A><A HREF="usens"><IMG SRC="MiscImages/NEXT" WIDTH="36" HEIGHT="36" BORDER="0"></A>
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<HR>
<H2><A NAME="Starting">Starting</A> the Web browser</H2>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You can start the browser in one of two ways:</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>from !Mail</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>by itself.</FONT>
</UL>
<H4>Starting the browser from !Mail</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>To start the browser from !Mail, first ensure !Connect,
!WebServe and !Mail are running (see <A HREF="useml#Start" >Starting !Connect</A>
and <A HREF="useml#Connecting" >Connecting with the mail system</A>)
then press menu over the !Mail icon bar icon and choose <B>WWW...</B>
</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The Web browser icon will appear on your icon bar.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Click on the browser icon bar icon and the Web browser
window home page will be displayed on your screen:</FONT>
<P>
<CENTER><IMG SRC="MiscImages/BROWSM" HEIGHT="295" WIDTH="251"></CENTER>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>(The window itself will not show any content if you
are not connected to your service provider or a local cache.)</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>To use the browser over the Internet, !Connect must
be connected by a telephone line to your service provider - see
<A HREF="useml#Connecti" >Connecting with the Internet</A>.</FONT>
<H4>Starting the browser by itself</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>First load !Connect and !WebServe (see <A HREF="useml#Start" >Starting !Connect</A>).</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Display the directory containing !Browse and double-click
on its icon. The Web browser icon will appear on your icon bar.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Click on the browser icon bar icon and log in with
your usual name and password.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>When your log-on has been authenticated, the Acorn
Internet browser window will be displayed on your screen:</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>To use the browser over the Internet, !Connect must
be connected by a telephone line to your service provider - see
<A HREF="useml#Connecti" >Connecting with the Internet</A>.</FONT>
<P>
<B><FONT SIZE=3>We are now going to describe the way the browser
works, as background to using it. If you are anxious to start
opening Web pages now, go straight to <A HREF="#directly" ><B>Opening a page directly</B></A><B>.</B></FONT></B>
<H2><A NAME="Overview">Overview</A></H2>
<P>
<B><FONT SIZE=3>Note:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=3> !Browse is a 'Frames
capable' browser. 'Frames' in HTML divide the content area of
the browser into separate windows, so that separate pages may
be displayed in different windows at the same time. When you are
given the opportunity to choose Web pages with or without Frames,
you can therefore choose Frames if you want to. </FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The Web browser window is your window onto the World
Wide Web. The diagram below shows its main features.<BR>
</FONT>
<P><BR>
<TABLE WIDTH=100%>
<TR><TD ALIGN="RIGHT" VALIGN="MIDDLE"><A NAME="_Ref400438685"><FONT SIZE=1>Title bar</FONT></A><FONT SIZE=1> (yellow strip)</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=1>Location field (<B>URL</B>)</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=1>Button bar (row of buttons)</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=1>Content area (where the page is displayed)</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=1>Status line at the bottom</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=1>Status indicator (Acorn)</FONT>
</TD><TD ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE">
<H3><CENTER><IMG SRC="MiscImages/BROWSM" HEIGHT="295" WIDTH="251"> </CENTER>
</H3>
</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="BOTTOM" WIDTH=142><FONT SIZE=1>Load indicator <BR>
at the bottom <BR>
righthand corner</FONT>
</TD><TD></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
<p>
<H3>Title bar</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The title bar of the Web browser window shows the
title of the current page - a brief description of what you're
looking at. Not all pages have titles, and so sometimes you will
see the page's URL shown in the title bar instead of a title.</FONT>
<H3>Location field</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Below the title bar, near the top of the Web browser
window you'll see the Location field. This shows you the URL of
the current page and can also be used to enter the location (the
URL address) of a page you wish to view next. </FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>To enter the address of a page, carefully type in
the URL and then press the Return key on your keyboard.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>See <A HREF="wpages#URLs" >Identifying resources - URLs</A></FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3>for more information on URLs and how they are constructed.</FONT>
<H3><A NAME="BB">Button bar</A></H3>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">
<IMG SRC="Diagrams/Img00054" WIDTH="540" HEIGHT="78">
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The button bar contains eleven buttons: <B>Home</B>,
<B>Back</B>, <B>Reload</B>, <B>Stop</B>, <B>Forward</B>, <B>Hotlist</B>,<B>
Add to Hotlist</B>, <B>Save page source</B>, <B>Display page source</B>,
<B>Print</B>, <B>Show images</B>.</FONT>
<H4>Home</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Displays your designated Home Page.</FONT>
<H4>Back</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Returns to the previous page in the history list;
for example, if you followed a hyperlink or selected a menu item,
you can go back to the page you just came from. This is the same
as the <B>Navigate/Back one page</B> menu item. Obviously, if
this is the first page you have displayed, there is no page to
go back to, so the option is greyed out (as here).</FONT>
<H4>Reload</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Reloads the current page, displaying any changes
made and saved since the page was last loaded. This is useful
for checking an HTML file as you are creating it.</FONT>
<H4>Stop</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Stops the page transfer currently in progress.</FONT>
<H4>Forward</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Brings the next page in the history list. (Available
only after using the <B>Back</B> command or a <B>History</B> menu
item.)</FONT>
<H4><A NAME="Hotlist">Hotlist</A></H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Displays the list of pages currently on your hotlist
in the <B>Hotlist</B> window.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The hotlist is a way of getting easy and direct access
to your favourite pages, without having to type in the URL of
the page you want to visit, which is tedious and error-prone.
It is a list of pages you have marked as interesting or notable.
Once you add a page to your hotlist, the title stays until you
remove it.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Click on the <B>Hotlist</B> button to open the <B>Hotlist</B>
window, which lists the pages currently on your hotlist. Double-click
on one of these titles to fetch that page.</FONT>
<H4>Add to Hotlist</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Add the currently-displayed page to your hotlist.</FONT>
<H4>Save page source</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Clicking on this button saves the current page source
(i.e. in HTML). If the page displayed includes Frames, the file
saved will be the parent file. To save a particular frame, place
the cursor in the frame and use the menu option <B>File/Save frame.</B></FONT>
<H4>Display page source</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Displays the current page in its source form (i.e.
HTML). If the page displayed includes Frames, the file displayed
will be the parent file.</FONT>
<H4>Print</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Prints the current page if a printer is connected
and set up.</FONT>
<H4>Show images</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Switches images back on (if they have been switched
off using the menu option <B>Display/Show foreground images</B>
or <B>Show background images</B>.</FONT>
<H3>Content area</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Below the toolbar is the Content area, which displays
the current page. Use the vertical and horizontal scroll bars
to view pages larger than the content area. </FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You can view HTML-formatted text in the Content area,
as well as images. If you click on a hyperlink to another type
of file, for example, a sound file, an external helper application
(if a suitable one is available) will be started up to allow you
to access the file.</FONT>
<H3>Status indicator, status line and load progress</H3>
<H4>Status indicator</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>In the lower lefthand corner of the Web browser window
is the Web browser status indicator (the modified Acorn logo).
</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>When you click on a hyperlink, the indicator animates,
showing that a page is being retrieved.</FONT>
<H4><A NAME="SL">Status line</A></H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The Status line at the bottom of the Web browser
window displays the URL of a linked page. When you move the cursor
around in the Content area over a hyperlink, the URL of the link
destination is displayed in the Status line. </FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The Status line also displays information about the
status of the current page retrieval. Examples of status messages
are:</FONT>
<P>
<TT><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Courier">Transfer in progress...</FONT></TT>
<P>
<TT><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Courier">Ready</FONT></TT>
<H4><A NAME="LPC"><FONT SIZE=3>Load progress</FONT></A>
</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Load progress is indicated by the number of bytes
of data loaded so far.</FONT>
<H2><A NAME="Finding">Finding</A>, starting and stopping links
</H2>
<H4>Links</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>A link is a connection from one page on the Web to
another, or to another part of the same page. Links appear in
a page as words or phrases that are highlighted with colour, underlining,
or both. Images and icons with coloured borders also serve as
links. A whole image may be a link, but some images are 'image
maps', with more than one link over them. When you move the pointer
over an image map, it turns into a cross-hairs to enable you to
point at the part of the image map you want to click on more easily.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>When you point the mouse cursor over a link, the
URL of the link destination appears in the Status line at the
bottom of the Web browser window.</FONT>
<H4>Starting links</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>To display a linked page on your computer screen,
you just click once on the highlighted text, image, or icon. Clicking
on a link transfers the page at the other end of the link from
the server where it is stored to your computer. </FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>After you click on a link, the Web browser status
indicator (the revolving Acorn) starts to animate to show you
that the transfer of the page to your computer is in progress.
</FONT>
<H4>Stopping links</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You can stop a transfer in progress by pressing the
<B>Stop</B> button on the toolbar or by choosing the <B>Navigate/Stop</B>
menu item.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You'll find that being able to stop a transfer in
progress is useful if it is taking a long time. This can happen
if the content of the page is large, for example, if it contains
a large graphic, or if the server computer is slow. </FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Sometimes the page specified by a link is just not
available. You'll usually get a message if a connection was not
made or a page not found. You can see how a transfer is progressing
from the <A HREF="#SL" >Status line</A> and how much of
the page has been transferred so far from the <A HREF="#LPC" >Load progress counter</A>.</FONT>
<H4>Navigating within a page</H4>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>When you follow a link, you'll see the whole page
or, if the page contains more than a screenful of information,
part of it. Use the scroll bars to look at the rest. The portion
you see may be the top of the page, but sometimes following a
link may bring you into a page at the middle or end. Following
a link does not always bring a new page to screen - it can bring
a different portion of the same page (in effect, automatically
scrolling for you).</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>For example, the top of a page often includes a table
of contents that links each section title to a section subheading
further down the page.</FONT>
<H3>Moving around</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You move through the web of information available
online by following links. </FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>You click on highlighted words (coloured and/or
underlined) in a page to bring another page of related information
to your screen.</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>You click on titles in the <B>Hotlist</B> window
to go directly to pages that you've already viewed, or which interest
you.</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>You click on buttons on the toolbar to go back
and forth between pages you have previously visited.</FONT>
</UL>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The Web browser buttons and windows are designed
to help you move quickly from page to page and also keep track
of the pages that you've viewed.</FONT>
<H3><A NAME="_Ref400437937">Opening a page</A> <A NAME="directly">directly</A>
</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The URL of the page you're looking at is displayed
in the Location field at the top of the <A HREF="#Overview" >Web browser window</A>.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Usually, you don't need to know a page's URL because
the location information is built into a highlighted link; all
you need to do is click on highlighted text, press a button, or
select a menu item. But sometimes you won't have an automatic
link and instead have only the text of the URL (perhaps from a
friend or a from a newspaper article). </FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The Web browser lets you type a URL directly either
into the Location field or into the <B>URL</B> dialogue box which
appears when you choose the <B>Navigate/Open URL</B> menu item.
The Web browser uses the URL to bring you the specified page just
as if you had clicked on an automatic link. </FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Open the URL dialogue box and try typing in some
of the following URLs:</FONT>
<P>
<TT><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Courier">http://www.acorn.com/</FONT></TT>
<P>
<TT><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Courier">http://www.nhm.ac.uk/</FONT></TT>
<P>
<TT><FONT SIZE=3 FACE="Courier">http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/</FONT></TT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>To display a new page in a separate Web browser window,
press the <B>Menu</B> mouse button over the Web browser icon
on the icon bar at the bottom of the screen and choose <B>Open
URL</B> from the menu. Then type the URL for the page into the
<B>URL</B> dialogue box.</FONT>
<H2><A NAME="The">The</A> browser menu</H2>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The options available from the button bar, plus a
lot more, are available from the browser menu. Press the Menu
button over the browser window in order to display the menu. The
following main menu options are shown:</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>File</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>Display</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>Navigate</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>Hotlist</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>History.</FONT>
</UL>
<H3>File menu options</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Using the browser menu, you can <B>Save</B></FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>the <B>frame</B> the pointer is over</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>the <B>parent</B> of the frame the pointer is
over</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>The current location (URL) as a file. Clicking
on the file opens the browser window and tries to load the location.</FONT>
</UL>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You can also <B>Export</B> the current page or frame
as</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>a <B>Drawfile</B></FONT>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>plain text</FONT></B>
</UL>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>and also <B>Export</B></FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>the page as a <B>Link</B></FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>the <B>Pictures</B> on the page</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>the <B> Background</B> of the page</FONT>
</UL>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You can also <B>Print</B> the current page from the
<B>File</B> menu, as from the button bar.</FONT>
<H3>Display menu options</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The control and information bars are very useful,
but they do take up some of the browser window area otherwise
used for content, so they can be deleted if you want. Tick the
following options to <I>display</I> them:</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>URL bar</FONT></B>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>Button bar</FONT></B>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>Status bar</FONT></B>
</UL>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Note that button bar functions (and a lot more besides)
are all available from the browser Menu.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You can display links in text <B>Underline</B>d,
or just in a different colour.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Not displaying images saves a lot of loading time.
If this is important to you, don't tick <B>Show foreground images</B>
(i.e. pictures) and <B>Show background images</B>.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You can also display the browser <B>Full screen</B>:
you gain more room for content, but temporarily lose some of RISC
OS's multi-tasking ability.</FONT>
<P>
<B><FONT SIZE=3>Document encoding </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=3>governs
the character set used by the browser. The <B>Latin</B>-1 set
is normally used by European languages (including English), but
other world language character sets are also available.</FONT>
<H3>Navigate menu options</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The <B>Navigate</B> menu options generally repeat
the options available from the <A HREF="#BB" >button bar</A>:</FONT>
<UL>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>Open URL</FONT></B>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>Home page</FONT></B>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>Back one page</FONT></B>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>Forward one page</FONT></B>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>Reload this page</FONT></B>
<LI><B><FONT SIZE=3>Load all images </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=3> (if
switched off using the options <B>Display/</B>(do not)<B> Show
images</B> mentioned above).
<LI><B> Stop all fetches.</FONT></B>
</UL>
<H3>Hotlist menu options</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The <B>Show hotlist...</B> and <B>Add this page</B> (to hotlist)
options allow you to use the <A HREF="#Hotlist" >hotlist</A>
without the button bar.</FONT>
<H3>History menu options</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Using the <B>Utilities</B> menu option, you can <B>Find
text </B> in the currently-displayed page, which can be very
useful when some Web pages continue for many conventional pages.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The final menu option allows you to <B>Quit</B> the
browser. The browser icon disappears from the icon bar.</FONT>
<H2><A NAME="Viewing">Viewing</A> locally-stored pages</H2>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>As well as fetching and displaying pages from the
far corners of the Internet, the Web browser also lets you look
at pages stored locally on your own local network.</FONT>
<P>
<UL>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>Choose the <B>Navigate/Open URL...</B> menu item to
display the <B>Open URL</B> dialogue box. You can then specify
the page you want to view in one of two ways:</FONT>
<LI><FONT SIZE=3>Enter the filename of the HTML file and then
click on <B>Open</B>.
<LI>Choose a page from the drop-down History list</FONT>
</UL>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Alternatively, you can select the HTML file icon and drag it onto the Web
browser window or onto the Web browser icon on the desktop icon
bar.</FONT>
<P>
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