Top Document: FAQ: Scheme Frequently Asked Questions 1/2 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-14] Why is there no EVAL in Scheme? Next Document: [1-16] Why is Scheme called 'Scheme'? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge The World Wide Web (WWW) is a hypermedia document that spans the Internet. It uses the http (HyperText Transfer Protocol) for the light-weight exchange of files over the Internet. NCSA Mosaic is a World Wide Web browser developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Mosaic's popularity derives, in part, from its ability to communicate using more traditional Internet protocols like FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and NNTP, in addition to http. Mosaic can display text, hypertext links, and inlined graphics directly. When Mosaic encounters a file type it can't handle internally, such as Postscript documents, mpeg movies, sound files, and JPEG images, it uses an external viewer (or player) like Ghostscript to handle the file. Mosaic also includes facilities for exploring the Internet. In other words, Mosaic is an multimedia interface to the Internet. The hypertext documents viewed with Mosaic are written in HTML (HyperText Markup Language), which is a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). All that is needed is just a few more improvements, such as the ability to format tables and mathematics, and a WYSIWYG editor, for HTML to greatly facilitate electronic journals and other publications. NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/Mosaic/ as source code and binaries for Sun, SGI, IBM RS/6000, DEC Alpha OSF/1, DEC Ultrix, and HP-UX. Questions about NCSA Mosaic should be directed to mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu (X-Windows version), mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Macintosh), and mosaic-win@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Microsoft Windows). A simple HTML version of the Scheme FAQ (this FAQ) is available as http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/scheme/top.html The Scheme home page at MIT is http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scheme-home.html It includes a nifty little form that lets you execute small examples of Scheme code. The Scheme Underground web page is http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/su/su.html User Contributions:Top Document: FAQ: Scheme Frequently Asked Questions 1/2 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-14] Why is there no EVAL in Scheme? Next Document: [1-16] Why is Scheme called 'Scheme'? Part1 - Part2 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: ai+lisp-faq@cs.cmu.edu
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