NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System User's Guide

## Mosaic Capabilities

NCSA Mosaic software is a distributed hypermedia system designed for information discovery and retrieval over the Internet, which is a global network of networks. NCSA Mosaic provides a single interface to the variety of protocols, data formats, and information servers available throughout the Internet.

NCSA Mosaic includes the following features:

- display of plain text, rich text, and hypermedia
- inline graphics and images
- a customizable graphical user interface
- global history of information space navigation -- tracking where you've been
- quick access to important or frequently used documents via a personal ``hotlist''
- search capabilities within a document and over the Internet
- text and voice annotation for documents anywhere on the Internet
- full TCP/IP-based communications support
- easily extendable to arbitrary viewers or other data formats

NCSA Mosaic is implemented for three platforms: Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and the X Window System on UNIX systems.