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Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux (Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing) Author(s): Manuel Ricart ISBN: 078971826x Publication Date: 12/22/98 function isIE4() { return( navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1 && (navigator.appVersion.charAt(0)=='4') ); } function bookMarkit() { var url="../../../../../www.itknowledge.com/PSUser/EWBookMarks.html@url="+window.location+"&isbn=0"; parent.location.href=url; //var win = window.open(url,"myitk"); //if(!isIE4()) // win.focus(); } Search this book:   Previous Table of Contents Next Chapter 9Communication: Web, FTP, Email, and News In This Chapter •  Accessing the World Wide Web •  Transferring Files with FTP •  Sending and Receiving Email •  Participating in Newsgroups Accessing the Web Now that your connection is set, you can access the Web. Caldera’s OpenLinux arrives preinstalled with Netscape Communicator. Netscape Communicator has all the tools you need to read news and email (Messenger), access the Web (Navigator), participate in discussion (news) groups (Collabra), and even develop your own HTML Web pages. In KDE, KFM (the file viewer) is also network aware. KFM provides a basic browser capable of accessing simple Web sites. For quick and dirty Web surfing, KDE might provide all you need. For more extensive surfing, Navigator provides many more features and capabilities used by the more popular Web sites. Some of these features make viewing a Web site a more interactive experience. Netscape also takes full advantage of the strong networking capabilities and multitasking that Linux offers. Web sites seem to download and display much more quickly than they do on other platforms such as Windows or the Macintosh (see the next figure). KFM’s depiction of www.yahoo.com Web site. To access the Web using KDE, connect to your ISP and type any Web address in the location field of a KFM browser. KFM will render that page as appropriate. To move to a different page or section of the Web site, click on a link. Links are typically seen as underlined text or even as an image. A link is an entry point (a hypertext reference) to another page with additional information. Links can be local to the Web site you are browsing, or they can be part of a different Web site. Links are what make the Web a web. Not all browsers render the information the same way. Notice the difference between how KFM (in the previous figure) and Netscape render a page (in the following figure). Better Web sites exploit features found on Netscape and Internet Explorer. To get these enhanced pages, you must use Netscape Navigator. (Internet Explorer is not yet available for Linux, although some UNIX ports are starting to appear.) Features of the standard browser window include: •  Location bar—Type a URL and hit Enter to go to that site. •  Back and Forward buttons—Back button enables you to move back to pages previously visited. If you go back, the forward button allows you to return to where you were last. •  Home button—Takes you by default to www.netscape.com, but you can use the Preferences command in the Edit menu to change your Navigator preferences for this action. •  The bookmark icon—Enables you to drag the address of the current page to your bookmark area (the area right below the location bar) so you can return easily to this page. •  Bookmark area—Bookmarked sites are available from these icons. •  Status area—Displays messages and the address of links your mouse hovers over. •  Links—Images or underlined text can represent a link to another page. Click the link to go to that page. •  Search button—Takes you to various search engines you can use to find information interesting to you. •  Navigator icon—Click to open a new Navigator (browser) window. •  Messenger icon—Click to access Messenger, the email component of Netscape Communicator. •  Collabra icon—Click to open a list of discussion groups (news groups) with the Collabra component. •  Composer icon—Click to open a text editor[nd]like application you can use for designing your own Web pages. To access the Web using Netscape, invoke a minicli window (see “Mini Command Line” in Chapter 8, “Accessing the Network”) and type netscape. You can also access Netscape Communicator from the Application Start menu under Applications. After a few seconds, you’ll see some panels from Netscape telling you that it is creating a profile for you and a place to put cache files. Netscape’s depiction of the www.yahoo.com Web site. 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