	The All-Tcl Plume Web browser.
		0.6.1alpha

Plume is a WWW browser implemented entirely using the Tcl/Tk language and 
toolkit.  It was formerly known as SurfIt!.  It currently parses HTML v1.0, 
v2.0 and some HTML v3.2 elements.  The goal is for the parser to be completely 
HTML v3.2 compliant and to support stylesheets.  It handles inline GIF, PPM 
and X bitmap images natively, and can handle JPEG and TIFF images if
Jan Nijtman's Img package has been installed.

The most interesting aspect of Plume is that it will download and execute 
Tcl scripts (a.k.a. "Applets").  Plume uses Safe-Tcl to ensure that foreign, 
untrusted scripts cannot compromise the security of the computer that the 
browser is running on.

INSTALLATION
============

First you need to have Tcl/Tk 8.0, or Tcl 7.6 and Tk 4.2 installed.  
If you're running on Unix, make sure wish4.2 is on your PATH.
This version does not work with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 or earlier.

For complete download, installation and configuration information, see
http://tcltk.anu.edu.au/0.6.1alpha/

Brief instructions:

Download plume-0.6.1 from your nearest Tcl archive, or from:

	FTP from ftp://tcltk.anu.edu.au/pub/plume/plume-0.6.1.tcl
	HTTP from http://tcltk.anu.edu.au/0.6.1alpha/plume

You can take your choice of compression - uncompress the file once the 
download has finished.

Run 'plume-0.6.1'.  On Unix you just type './plume-0.6.1'.  On Windows you 
double-click it.  On Macintosh, you can source the script, or get the
SEA file.

INFORMATION
===========

For the latest information visit the Plume Web page at:

	http://tcltk.anu.edu.au/

There is a mailing list for developers and users.  See the included 
documentation for details on how to join.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
================

The author wishes to acknowledge the support provided by the 
Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems 
established under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research 
Centres Programme.

The Plume Project is a collaborative research project of the Department
of Computer Science, Australian National University and Sun Microsystems
Laboratories.

Stephen Uhler and Jacob Levy have provided much help and advice (many thanks!).
I'd also like to thank John Ousterhout for his help and encouragement.

Also thanks to Plume's contributors.

CONTACT
=======

If you have any problems, wish to discuss some aspect of the browser,
or have done some hacking and want to contribute some code then feel free
to contact me.

EMail:	Steve.Ball@tcltk.anu.edu.au
WWW:	http://tcltk.anu.edu.au/steve/
Phone:	+61 6 249 5146
Fax:	+61 6 249 0010
Snail:	Department of Computer Science,
	Australian National University
	ACTON 0200 ACT
	AUSTRALIA


README,v 1.3 1995/08/28 01:19:57 steve Exp

Steve Ball, Steve.Ball@tcltk.anu.edu.au
