The NCSA Mosaic Resource Guide
Welcome! This page is designed to give you convenient access to some of the many resources
on the World Wide Web. NCSA Mosaic information can be found on the
NCSA Mosaic for
Microsoft Windows Home page. Please refer to our home page for the latest
information about: news and announcements, Win32s information, external viewers,
sample background images & audio schemes, on-line documentation and many
other related topics.
Information about using Mosaic's many features can be found in the Mosaic Help file.
Click "Contents" in the Help menu of Mosaic to open the file. The Help file also
contains a glossary of terms you may find helpful while configuring Mosaic or surfing
the Internet. If you need help configuring your system for a winsock, check the
readme.wri file in the Mosaic directory or ask your Internet access provider for
assistance.
A few topics you may find interesting and helpful:
NCSA Mosaic Licensing
NCSA Mosaic is
copyright
by The Board of Trustees of the
University of Illinois (UI)
, and ownership remains with the UI. The UI grants you a license without
a fee the use of Mosaic software for personal, academic, research, government
and internal business purposes. If you are interested in more information about
licensing Mosaic for distribution see the Mosaic
licensing document.
HTML Reference Material
HTML, (HyperText Markup Language), is an evolving standard governing the way hypertext
objects are created and displayed in World Wide Web browsers. The standards group that
governs HTML is the
HTML Working Group within the IETF
(Internet Engineering Task Force).
The group works on an open forum basis and is open to the public. The members of the
HTML working group work closely with members of W3C
(The World Wide Web Consortium) on
issues concerning the present and future state of the World Wide Web. The World Wide
Web Consortium is a group lead by Tim Berners-Lee. Tim created the concepts that lead
to the World Wide Web while working at CERN, the European
Particle Physics Laboratory.
Finding Information on the Internet
Finding information the Internet can be very easy if you know where to look.
Below we've listed a few of the many search engines that are available to the
World Wide Web community. Enter a topic in space provided and click query to
submit a search to the respective search engine. To find out more about the
listed search engines, click on its name to link to the home page.
mosaic-w@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign