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LINK supportHinweis an deutschsprachige Leser: Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch vorhanden.
In addition to LYNX and iCab, mentioned in the article,
there are other browsers that support the LINK element. Below are
the results of my research. If you know of additional browsers, please contact
me!
iCab andLynx:
see article
On this page:
Internet Explorer
Links
Opera
Mozilla
CAB for Atari
AOLpress 2.0
UDIwww
NCSA Mosaic 3.0
EMACS W3
AWEB-II
Rumours
Thanks to Thomas J. Gritzan there's finally LINK support in Internet Explorer! The toolbar is available in English and German and additionally provides a Pop-up blocker and direct search engine access.
Opera 7. Opera now also sports support for LINK elements. The link toolbar only shows if there are link elements present in the page.
Screenshot by Hendrik Krauß
Mozilla 1.1. In Version 1.0 the feature was deactivated, but since Version 1.1 Mozilla finally has a LINK-Toolbar, now called "Site Navigation Bar". This useful feature is disabled by default, and buried deep in the menus - it takes four mouseclicks to activate the toolbar:
Screenshot by Kalin Kozhuharov
The presentation of the LINK elements hasn't changed since Version 0.9.5 nicht
verändert:
Screenshot by Marc Schirrmacher
LINK elements: the blue double arrow
in image 1.LINK navigation elements: Start, Inhalt (content), Index, Glossar
(glossary), Vor (forward), Zurück (back), etc. This is visible in image 2. This
implimentation is quite as userfriendly as in iCab.(images and information provided
by Alexander Clauss, developer of CAB and iCAB).
AOLpress 2.0 This
browser by America Online, Inc., is no longer being developed and 'only' available
for the Windows operating systems.
UdiWWW
in the LEO Archive has the latest executables. Information in README.TXT,
the readme file on the FTP-Server of University of Ulm. This FTP server does
not have the latest executable available.
This browser was developed by Bernd Richter at the University of Ulm. The most
current version is dated 1996, this browser is no longer being developed.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/
The browser developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
is available for X Windows, Apple, and Microsoft Windows. According to a note
from 1997, it is no longer being developed.
(click on the image for a larger image with the whole LINK navigation
bar)
AWEB on
Amiga. See http://www.amitrix.com/awebshot.html
for a few images that show its LINK support in action.
Links for Unix und OS/2
Image: Toby A Inkster
LINK Element:
Comments about LINK can also be found at the W3C website: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-links.