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Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
[About this new look]
Browser Comparisons: Internet Explorer & NetscapeUC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops |
| About This Tutorial | Table of Contents | Handouts | Glossary |
The URL of this page is http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Browsers.html
"Cheat Sheet" comparing IE &
Netscape features in UCB's Public PCs (PDF file)
What's a "browser"?
Why BOTH Internet Explorer and Netscape? Isn't one browser
enough?
The Screens
To Navigate the Web
To Move Through a Document
To Save a Document to a Diskette
To Save Images in a Document to a Diskette
To View a File Stored on a Disk
To E-Mail a Document
To Print from the Library's Computers
To Change the Font Size
Non-Roman Fonts and Character Sets
Bookmarks, Favorites, and Other Features Not Available
in the Library
The term is short for Web browser, a software application that resides on a computer and is used to locate and display Web pages. Browsers allow you to click on hypertext links to retrieve information via the Web, and offer additional features for navigating and managing the Web.
Netscape's Navigator, often referred to simply as "Netscape," and Microsoft's Internet Explorer, often called simply "IE" are the most popular Web browsers. Both are graphical browsers, which means that they can display graphics as well as text, and can be used to view and interact with many multimedia formats, including sound, video, and other programs. Often a "plug-in" is required for these formats. If the computer you are using is equipped to allow it, you can hear and even talk. Note that not all of Netscape's or IE's features are available on the Library's public computers. Headphones are available at many of the Library's public computers, but not talking.
This document explains navigating and other basic functions of both IE and Netscape. It focuses on features supported in the Library's public computers. For more detail about Netscape, please see Netscape Essentials. This tutorial does not currently offer equivalent detail on IE.
For most people's purposes, one browser is sufficient. IE and Netscape are both excellent browsers. For a long time, Netscape was the more heavily used of the two. In the last couple of years, both have become very powerful. Netscape continues to offer Bookmark capabilities that IE's "Favorites" cannot match. Most other features are pretty equivalent in both of these browsers.
The Library has found that IE works better than Netscape in some specialized Library applications, and we have therefore made IE the default browser when you click on the icons in the public computers for our catalogs or the CD/ROM network. If you wish to use Netscape to access any of these applications or the World Wide Web, you may do so by opening Netscape and locating what you want beginning with the Library Home Page. The entire Web is accessible through both browsers.
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and Forward 
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in both IE and Netscape)Click on links or buttons within a document in the document window. Links are the highlighted areas of hypertext in the document itself. They will retrieve other documents. To click on a link, move the mouse over the highlighted area and click once.
Back (the first toolbar button) returns to the previous document. Use the Forward toolbar button only after you've already backed up to a previous document. It will return you to the document you were viewing before you chose to go back.
Go in Netscape and History in IE show you a list of sites you have recently visited. Using them may be faster than clicking BACK several times.
Home (a little house toolbar button on the in both IE and Netscape) returns to the UCB Library Web Home Page.
If you have the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of a specific document you want to see, type the URL into the white Location or Address box, and press the Enter key. (You will need to highlight and delete the text in that box before you can type in a new URL.) A URL is the Internet address of a specific document.
Want more help or instruction? For more information on URLs and how the Web works, please consult our Online Web Tutorial at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html. To learn to search for documents using search engines and subject directories, please consult our Online Tutorial's Recommended Strategy for Finding Information on the Web, or start from the Library's convenient Search the Internet page. You can also attend a free class on these topics.
Click the mouse in the arrows at the ends of the scrollbars on the right (or bottom) side of the document to move through the document. You may hold the right mouse button down on the pad in the scroll bars and drag it to move the document as well. The space bar key will also take you down through the document, and the backspace key will bring you back up. PageUp and PageDown keys or the arrow keys also let you move.
From the File menu in IE or Netscape, select Save As. A dialog box will appear. Follow instructions in the table below for each browser:
| Internet Explorer | Netscape |
In the File
Name box, enter the file name you want, followed by .html
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Follow the
same procedures. Note that you may have to rename the file, eliminating
all periods (.) except the one before .html
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You will be able to view the document with its images by opening it IE or MS Word or Netscape. |
The saved
document will NOT contain any images. To save images using Netscape, see
the next section. You will be able to view the document by opening it IE or MS Word or Netscape. |
| Note: On the Library's public computers, you can only save files to diskette (the a: drive). Any files saved to the hard drive of the computer will be deleted. | |
IE and Netscape handle images very differently when you save a document.
| Internet Explorer | Netscape |
| When you follow the procedure above to save a document containing images, IE automatically saves all images and other files in the document in a folder with a name ending in _Files. When you view the document using IE or Netscape, these related files are automatically linked to and active in the saved document. | To save an image, place the cursor over the image, click the right mouse button, and select Save Image As... Use the Save As dialog box as above, but be sure the extension of the file is .jpg or .jpeg or .gif or .bmp when you save it. These are the most common types of image files on the Web. |
| The only way to avoid saving all related files is to use Netscape to save the document. | Saving a document in Netscape does NOT save the images -- only the text. Images must be saved individually. Use IE if you want them all saved in one step. |
| Caution: If the document you are saving contains many graphics, the IE related files folder may exceed the capacity of a diskette. Use Netscape and save important images individually if this happens. | |
To verify if you have successfully saved something to diskette from a CD-ROM, MELVYL or Web search:
| Internet Explorer | Netscape |
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Click
on File from the Menu Bar, then Open... |
In the white
Location box in above the document window, try typing a:\ If you see a list of all the files on the diskette, select the file you wish to view. This function may not work on the Library's public computers. |
| Internet Explorer | Netscape |
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Click
File in the Menu Bar, then Send: |
Click File
in the Menu Bar, then Send Page Text is sometimes included. Quote button above sends descriptions of images as well. |
| Images
and other related filtes are not sent in e-mail. Non-Roman characters may not always be successfully received in e-mail. |
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Printing is available a most of the Library's computers. Procedures vary slightly for each of the these browsers:
| Internet Explorer | Netscape |
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Click File in the Menu Bar, then Print. Select desired options. |
Click File in the Menu Bar, then |
| Click File, then Page Setup to alter margins, select landscape view, and other details. | Click File, then Page Setup to alter margins. No landscape view available. Has Black Text option. |
| If printing a document with LIGHT colored text, Netscape's Black Text option will force the text to appear black when printed. | |
You can change the size of the type in the display in the Library's public computers, but not the font face, colors, or other appearance factors. Instructions below for changing the font face and document appearance should work on your own computer.
| Internet Explorer | Netscape |
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Change display font by clicking on View in the Menu Bar, then Text Size. Select an option. |
Change display font by clicking on View in the Menu Bar, then Increase Font or Decrease Font. The keyboard commands Ctrl+] or Ctrl+[ also work. |
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Changing display font size also changes font in printing in IE. |
Changing display font does NOT change font in printing in Netscape. |
You may view Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek, and other non-Roman character sets in the Library's public computers. IE works better than Netscape for some fonts.
| Internet Explorer | Netscape |
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Click on
View from the Menu Bar, then Encoding. |
Click on View from the Menu Bar, then Character Set. |
| You may have to repeat the procedure, trying different character sets with a document in your screen until you find the one that works best for a particular document. | |
| Quick Links |
| Web browser guides: Internet Explorer & Netscape | Netscape Essentials | Lynx Basics |
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