Re: Mosaic vs WWW

Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS (Gary.Adams@east.sun.com)
Tue, 23 Nov 93 16:12:25 EST


> From www-talk-request@dxcern.cern.ch Tue Nov 23 16:00:51 1993

> >Am I the only one who is getting irritated by this constant
> >confusion in the press between WWW and Mosaic? Don't get
>
> That sort of thing is inevitable. I'd consider it a good sign.
> It shows that www and mosaic are in use by non-experts.
>
> Reed Wade
> wade@cs.utk.edu

One of the confusions that I have heard repeated a number of times
at our site, is people looking for the Mosaic server. Many applications
are shipped with a client and a server component, so it makes sense when
people ask if they need to install the server software.

A decent diagram of the web clients and the web services which shows
how the various applications can plug & play would go along way to
reducing end user confusion about the various roles each tool
provides in navigating through the web.