Argo (web browser)
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- For other uses, see Argo (disambiguation).
Argo was part of a project to make the Internet accessible to scholars in the Humanities at the University of Groningen. The Argo web browser was created in August 1994 by Bert Bos.
[edit] Functionality
The browser featured plug-in modules, or "applets", which allowed for the addition of new functionality without recompilation. Examples of such functionality provided by the applets includes adding support for the following:
- Bookmarks/history
- Cache/proxy support
- Data formats (e.g. ASCII, GIF, HTML, JPEG, XBM, XPM)
- E-mail clients (e.g. mutt, pine)
- Protocols (e.g. FTP, Gopher, HTTP, NNTP, WAIS)
- Graphical navigation
The browser's kernel depended on the modules to provide such functionality.
