A single document is one that is entirely available by scrolling, without clicking on any hypertext links. A browser is a software package that allows a user to find and retrieve Web pages via the Internet. The browser you use determines, to some extent, what the documents you retrieve will look like. The browser formats the pages you retrieve for screen display on your computer. Each browser will format and display, for each page, all of the elements it is capable of handling.
Some browsers handle text only.
A popular text only browser is Lynx . The most popular browsers are capable of displaying multimedia information as well. It's recommended for this class that you use Netscape as your Web browser because this coursepack will refer directly to menu options and browser functionality unique to this program. If you have suggestions for useful plug-in software to be added for use in the labs, contact the lab coordinators in Hesperus Hall. Our version of Netscape is compatible with Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT , and we will access it through Windows on library and lab machines.