r ride sides or the browser, or not at all. If you don't display the buttons, you can still use menu items to execute all of the button functions except Back and Forward.

The Locator is the Place field, where you type in the URL of a place you want to visit. Use this menu to choose the placement of the Locator field.

The Activity Monitor, shown below, consists of the miniature progress monitor and the Duke icon that animates while a page is being loaded. Choose to display this in the header (default), the footer, or not at all.

The Message Line is the area where all the HotJava Browser messages are displayed. By default, this appears in the header beneath the Place field, or Locator. You can choose to move the Message Line to the footer, or not display it at all.

Typeface and Typeface Size determine the typeface used by the HotJava Browser to display and print HTML pages. These settings affect normal HTML text, but they do not affect the text in applets running on your page. You may also find that some pages have "text" that is actually in a graphic, and is thus not affected by the typeface display settings.

Choose Show Clock if you'd like to display a clock (with date) in the upper left corner of the HotJava Browser, beneath the menus. You can change the format of your clock by editing a property. See Date Format for the HotJava Browser Clock for information.

Choose Show HTML Errors Button to add a button to the HotJava Browser that you can use as a shortcut for displaying HTML errors on the current page. See the HTML Errors documentation for more information.

Use the Links option to specify whether HTML hypertext links are underlined. When this option is off, links are displayed in a different color of text. When this option is on, links are both a different color and underlined. The default is to have links underlined. In either case, when a link has previously been followed, the color of the link changes.

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Follow these links for information about other Preferences pages:

this to be any page you'd like by typing in a new URL in the Show Home Page text field. This field can never be empty; if you empty the field, HotJava will udt/appconfig/hotjava/UsersGuide/exploring.html010044400000000000002000000441370634666653200216730ustar00rootbin00000400000016 Exploring the Web with the HotJava(tm) Browser

Exploring the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a vast collection of information stored on computers located all around the world. People have created Web pages, which you view with a browser such as HotJavaTM, that contain information on just about any topic you can think of. Web pages consist of text, images, audio files, movies, animation, and interactive computer applications called Java applets.

HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the language used to create Web pages. HotJava 1.0 supports the latest HTML standard, (currently HTML 3.2), plus many popular HTML extensions.

If you would like to learn more about HTML, see A Beginner's Guide to HTML, provided by the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Application).

HotJava Browser Navigation Buttons

The HotJava Browser Navigation buttons provide shortcuts to navigate the Web (plus a couple of other shortcuts).

The Back button takes you back to the previous place you visited. The next time you click on the Back button, it takes you to the place you visited the time before that, and so on.

The Forward button displays the page viewed prior to clicking the Back button. Forward only works after Back has been used.

The other buttons are all shortcuts for menu items. Follow the links below for detailed information about each one, or see the Getting Started Navigation Page for a summary of all the Navigation button functions.
 Home    Reload    Stop  
 Remember Place    Find in Document    Print  

  In addition to the standard buttons above, this is an optional button for displaying HTML Errors. You can add this button to your HotJava Browser by choosing Show HTML Errors Button on the Edit-> Preferences->Display page and clicking Apply.

URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)

You can visit World Wide Web pages and other places on the Internet by following hypertext links on the current page or by typing in a specific URL in the Place field. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, and is the address of a page on the World Wide Web. (See A Beginner's Guide to URLs, a document provided by the NCSA.)

To visit a place on the Internet, click in the Place field at the top of the HotJava window. Type the desired URL directly into the Place field and press Return or Enter to display the specified Web page.
Adt/appconfig/hotjava/UsersGuide/dev_security.html010044400000000000002000000164040631636007200223500ustar00rootbin00000400000016 HotJava(tm) Browser Applet Security Developer Notes

This page contains notes about Applet Security which are of particular interest to Applet Developers. Look here for information about:

Javakey Restriction
Loading Multiple Applets from Single CODEBASE
Details on Applet Security Levels

Javakey Restriction

If you mark a certificate as "trusted" using the JDK's new javakey utility, applets running on your machine that are signed with that certificate are treated by your system as if they are trusted local application code. These applets will not be subject to any security manager controls you set in the HotJava Browser.

This has no effect on users who download your applet, unless they also use the javakey utility to mark the certificate as trusted.

Loading Multiple Applets from Single CODEBASE

If an unsigned applet is loaded from the same CODEBASE as a signed applet, the unsigned applet uses the same class loader. When the unsigned applet calls methods in the signed applet's classes, the unsigned applet is treated with the same level of trust as the