The WorldWideWeb application on the NeXT
NextStep WWW User guide
The "WorldWideWeb" application for
the NeXT is a prototype Hypertext
browser/editor. It allows direct
access to Hypertext servers, files
and news. See also further information:
General
When you double-click on the WorldWideWeb
icon, the application by default
displays your own home page, ~/WWW/default.html,
or failing that the system home page,
/usr/local/lib/WWW/default.html.
From then on, if you want to select
a document referred to by a page
being displayed, you just double
click on an areas of gray text. (Gray
was chosen so as not to use up other
highlighting techniques such as bold
or italic, which authors may want
to use for other things. When color
comes along, we can use colour...)
If you double-click anywhere else
in the document, you will select
a word, as is usual on the NeXT.
Some gray areas lead to whole documents,
while some bring up a document with
a particular target area highlighted.
This is called the destination anchor.
It is not gray unless it in turn
leads somewhere else, but double
clicking on a destination anchor
selects the whole anchor.
Indexes
Certain documents are indexes. They
normally have only a small amount
of text. You cannot read the index
yourself (it may be very big). To
access something through the index,
use the "Keyword search" menu option.
The window with the index in it must
be the main window (dark title bar)
when you use the keyword search panel.
The rules used by indexes to search
for matches vary. Different indexes
use different techniques, and cover
different ranges of information.
When a search is successful, the
result is a page of references to
documents. You select documents from
it by double clicking in the usual
way.
See also: