Re: Mosaic vs WWW

Gary.Adams@east.sun.com (Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS)

Mail folder: WWW Talk Oct 93-present
Next message: Marc Andreessen: "solidifying a really neat forms hack"
Previous message: Reed Wade: "Re: Mosaic vs WWW "
In-reply-to: Jim Davis: "Mosaic vs WWW"

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 16:12:25 EST
From: Gary.Adams@east.sun.com (Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS)
Message-id: <9311232112.AA02666@mrmarx.East.Sun.COM>
To: davis@dri.cornell.edu, wade@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Mosaic vs WWW
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch


> 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.