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- World Wide Web: WHAT'S NEW IN '92
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- Here's the latest (that we know) about W3, the hypertext information
- system. The High-Energy Physics world got
- its first official announcement of W3 in the CERN computer newsletter
- released at Christmas, with an introductory article. However, there are
- already many users of W3 outside HEP!
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- New browser
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- The new year starts with a release (version 1.1 - our first official
- "version1" release) of the line mode browser. This has protocol code in for
- a wealth of new information, with:
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- o Direct access to internet news groups
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- o Direct access to " gopher " campus-wide information systems etc.
- (Gopher is system similar to W3 but using a web of menus and
- plain text files rather than hypertext. It is all readable as
- hypertext using W3)
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- o Browsing of remote directories using FTP. Before, files could be
- read - now you can browse around as well. Any FTP site becomes a W3
- information source.
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- o Links directly to telnet (and rlogin) sites. This allows
- hypertexts to point to online communications facilities which don't
- have servers.
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- o Extensibility using gateways - you can configure www to use specific
- gateways for any access protocol which might turn up in the future
- which it can't handle directly.
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- The user interface is slightly improved, and you can save a document to a
- file, pipe it, or print it (under unix).
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- The browser version can be picked up by anonymous FTP in the usual way
- including source binaries for several platforms.
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- Those who have built other hypertext systems (such as Hyperbole and Viola)
- on top of the www browser will immediately gain access to the all this newly
- accessible information.
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- W3 at SLAC
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- Hot on the heels of the announcement of the W3 server for the "SPIRES"
- High-Energy Physics preprint database at the Stanford Linear ACcelerator lab
- comes news from Paul Kunz that the line mode browser is installed on all
- unix systems at SLAC. Happy browsing, folks.
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- Browsing on VM/CMS
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- The IBM mainframe at CERN now has a copy of the w3 browser (v0.14) running
- in line mode. We are considering ways to make it more full-screen in the VM
- style. The v1.1 browser is under test and may be installed by the time
- you get this. Other VM sites mail me for details.
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- Browsing under X with Viola
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- A version of www running in the "Viola" hypertext system looks neat - I just
- saw it running on an apollo and on a decstation. We shall release it soon
- with the coming new version of viola.
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- Conferences
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- The W3 demonstration had an enthusiastic reception at " HyperText'91 " in
- San Antonio, Texas.
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- Jean-Francois Groff presented W3 live at the Software Engineering
- and AI for High-Energy Physics workshop in La Londe, France. We've also
- been asked to demonstrate, as well as present a paper, at the Joint European
- Networking Conference (JENC3) in Innsbruck, Austria, in May.
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- As usual, details by telnetting info.cern.ch (no username or password),
- then selecting the "WorldWideWeb" link, software by anonymous FTP
- from node info.cern.ch.
- __________________________________________________________
- Tim Berners-Lee timbl@info.cern.ch
- World Wide Web project (NeXTMail is ok)
- CERN Tel: +41(22)767 3755
- 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Fax: +41(22)767 7155
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