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<H1 align=center>Arena</H1>

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<P CLASS="NOTE">Arena is no longer being maintained by <A
HREF="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</A>. Please visit <A
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<DT>Authors

<DD><A HREF="../People/Raggett">Dave Raggett</A>, <A HREF="../People/howcome/">H&aring;kon W Lie</A>, <A
HREF="../People.html#Frystyk">Henrik Frystyk</A>, <A HREF="../People/Lafon/">Yves Lafon</A>

<DT>Status

<DD>Prerelease <A HREF="beta-3">beta-3</A> has been released. (The
previous versions <A HREF="beta-2">beta-2</A> and <A HREF="beta-1">beta-1</A> are still available in <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Dist/arena/">binary</A> form.) It supports elements of HTML3, including tables, math and experimental
style sheets. There are bugs and shortcomings, so be sure to set you
expectations accordingly.

<DT>Background

<DD>Dave Raggett first implemented a browser to render documents
conforming to the HTML+ specifications which he worked on. HTML+ is
now known as HTML3, and Arena's primary purpose is still to be a
testbed for HTML3 documents. From July 94, H&aring;kon W Lie of <A
HREF="http://www.cern.ch/">CERN</A> worked with Dave to extend Arena
in several directions. First, it was modified to take advantage of the
library of common code, now known as the <A HREF="../Library/">W3C
Reference Library</A>. Also, Arena was ported to all major unix
platforms and made available on the net. Henrik Frystyk Nielsen was
responsible for the library while at CERN and has continued this work
for <A HREF="../">W3C</A> at MIT. From release 0.96, Arena has
included experimental support for <A
HREF="../Style/css/draft">Cascading Style Sheet</A>, and H&aring;kon Lie
continued this work for W3C at <A
HREF="http://www.inria.fr">INRIA</A>/Sophia Antipolis. Yves Lafon has
joined the team and is completing support for forms and style sheets.
We're grateful to many <A HREF="thanks.html">external
collaborators</A>.

<DT>Plans

<DD>Other testbed envoironements are likely to take over Arena's role
within W3C, and we do not foresee putting much development resources
into Arena at this point. 

<DT>Platforms

<DD>Arena runs in X11/unix environments. 

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<DT>Precompiled Binaries

<DD><A HREF="Dist-beta-2">Binaries</A> are available
for linux, sun (solaris and sunos), dec and sgi. 

<DT>Source code

<DD>The <A HREF="source-beta2">source code</A> of Arena is now available under the standard W3C copyright.

<DT>Documentation

<DD>See list of <A HREF="faq">frequently answered questions</A>.

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Last updated: June 15, 1996

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