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<h1>The World Wide Web</h1>
<p>The <dfn>WWW</dfn> provides a graphical interface to the Internet. It allows you to see pictures, find information and access other parts of the net very easily. It is like a very large book, with different pages holding lots of information and images. Each page also contains links directly to other pages which you can access just by clicking with the mouse.</p>
<p>Termite features a web browser with full navigation and bookmark features to make access to the complex structure of the Web easy, and support for a wide variety of obscure (and even incorrect) dialects of HTML, so you should be able to see all there is to see on the Web. Termite supports the full HTML 2.0 specification (with all features of forms, including text areas), with many HTML 3.0 and Netscape extensions. (The embossed DoggySoft logos on the background of this page are an example of these.)</p>
<p>Termite's web browser has many advanced features, including:</p>
<ul><li>A built-in incremental GIF decoder so you can see images as they download instead of having to wait for the whole file. Fancy mode is also available to make the images appear in blocks rather than lines. XBM images are supported too - any other images are processed by ChangeFSI.
<li>Incremental HTML parsing, so you see the page as it's being downloaded, instead of having to wait for the entire text.
<li>Automatic filetype detection, including an automatic download-to-disc option for undisplayable types. (You even get a Termite ZModem-style download progress window.)
<li>Support for <em>FTP</em> and <em>WAIS</em> via proxies, real <em>Gopher</em> and special feature allowing some or all web pages to come through a proxy (so you can get pages from overseas through a proxy, which can be faster).
<li>Any number of web windows may be opened simultaneously, with easy-to-use navigation toolbar that's also very small, so you can view more of the page.
<li>Configurable memory cache to make stepping back through pages you've vistited already easy. You can also view pages with no images except those already cached.
<li>Converts HTML to a draw-file which you can save out and print. Can also save the source, download links and save selected images in original or Acorn format.
<li>Full support for background colours, including the ability to work out what colour to anti-alias the text to, giving smooth fonts whatever the background. Termite is the only browser on any platform to support this.
<li>Unique smart-quotes feature to turn sexless quotes into better-looking smart quotes.</ul>
<p align=center>Why put up with a web that looks like this:</p>
<p align=center><img src="imgs/WebBad" alt="(A standard screen-shot from another Archimedes web browser)" width=520 height=342></p>
<p align=center>...when you could have it looking like this?</p>
<p align=center><img src="imgs/WebGood" alt="(A rather nicer looking shot of the same page from Termite. You might like to turn images on to see it.)" width=541 height=430></p>
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