Argo was part of a project to make the Internet accessible to scholars in the Humanities at the University of Groningen .[ 2] web browser was created in August 1994 by Bert Bos .[ 1]
There currently is no publicly available compiled version, although the source code still exists.[ 3]
History [ edit ] The Argo browser was able to handle its own style sheet language called Stream-based Style Sheet Proposal (SSP) rendered mostly by Xlib /Xrm .[ 1] markup languages in addition to HTML . In the development process of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Bos was one of the first people who decided to join Håkon Wium Lie .[ 2] [ 2] Arena and Argo were presented as a testbed at the World Wide Web Conference 3 on 10–14 April 1995 in Darmstadt [ 1] [ 2]
Functionality [ edit ] Argo based on the W3A , an API for WWW browser applets .[ 4] plug-in modules, or "applets ", which allowed for the addition of new functionality without recompilation. Examples of such functionality provided by the applets includes adding support for the following:[ 1]
Bookmarks /historyCache /proxy supportData formats (e.g. ASCII , GIF , HTML , JPEG , XBM , XPM )E-mail clients (e.g. Mutt , Pine )Protocols : FTP ,[ 5] gopher ,[ 5] HTTP ,[ 5] NNTP ,[ 5] WAIS ,[ 5] local files [ 5] Graphical navigation
The browser's kernel depended on the modules to provide such functionality.
Technical [ edit ] The browser was run on HP-UX and used dynamic loading to support its applets.
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