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- *****************************************************
- NCSA Mosaic 2.0.1
- *****************************************************
-
- The final version of NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh 2.0.1 was
- released Monday, October 2, 1995.
-
- We will continue to keep the comprehensive Known Bugs page as up-
- to-date as possible . To help us do this, please email us with any
- problems you find that are not related to those listed on the known
- bugs page. Use the Mail Developers feature from the File menu, or
- email to mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
-
- Note: Please check that the email address is correct before sending
- mail via the Mail Developers option. Thanks! Otherwise we will be
- unable to respond to you if the email address is incorrect.
-
- *****************************************************
- HOW TO GET NCSA MOSAIC
- *****************************************************
- NCSA Mosaic is available via anonymous ftp. Please enter
- 'anonymous' as the name and your complete email address as the
- password.
-
- <URL:ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac/Mosaic/>
-
- The NCSA ftp server is being overloaded with requests for the Mosaic
- software. Because of this, you may get an error message. Please wait
- a while and try again when the server may not be as busy. As an
- alternative, you may wish to try one of the following unofficial
- mirror sites. (these may be out-of-date or incorrect)
-
- USA:
- site: sunsite.unc.edu
- location: /pub/packages/infosystems/WWW (all versions)
- Australia:
- site: miriworld.its.unimelb.edu.au
- location: /pub/clients/ (all versions)
- Europe:
- site: ftp.luth.se
- location: /pub/infosystems/www/ncsa (all versions)
-
- site: ftp.sunet.se
- location: /pub/mac/Mosaic (mac version)
- /pub/pc/windows/www/Mosaic/ (pc version)
- /pub/www/Mosaic (X version)
-
- *****************************************************
- DECOMPRESSING THE ARCHIVE
- *****************************************************
-
- To UnStuff & UnBinHex NCSA Mosaic we recommend that you use
- StuffIt Expander. The expander is available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
- in the /Mac/Mosaic/Helpers/ directory.
-
- <URL:ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac/Mosaic/Helpers/>
-
- Important Note
-
- Some people are having problems starting up MacMosaic. If MacMosaic
- crashes before the splash screen is displayed, it is possible that there
- is a problem with your system. We now know that when the Apple Shared
- Library Manager(ASLM) is deinstalled improperly, when any application asks
- the MacOS if ASLM is present, the system will crash. To deinstall the ASLM
- run the ASLM installer. Hold the option key down and the install button
- should change to a deinstall button. Click the deinstall button.
-
- It is possible that this problem may exist with other MacOS
- extensions that require an installer. If MacMosaic won't start
- up on your machine, we recommend that you reinstall the system.
-
- *****************************************************
- Current Known Problems
- *****************************************************
-
- Sometimes menus are not updated properly when editing
- custom menus.
- There are still pagination problems in tables.
- Does not work with Type Reunion.
- Sometimes the menu bar gets messed up when you start up
- the PowerMac version. (This seems to be a MacOS
- problem. I have seen it in other applications
- besides Mosaic.)
- There are still some pagination bugs that have been
- fixed in version 3.0 (coming soon!).
- Incorrect table HTML will sometimes crash MacMosaic.
- <Option> tag with out enclosing form will
- crash MacMosaic. (Fixed in 2.0.2.)
-
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes for Final 2.0.1 release
- *****************************************************
-
- Fixed some table rendering bugs.
- Fixed bug with URLs and forms, where the "?" was
- being removed.
-
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes for Final 2.0.0 release
- *****************************************************
-
- Fixed history menu and <title> strings that are
- too big.
- Fixed many pagination and rendering bugs.
- Fixed helper application dialog.
- Removed "Save as...HTML".
- Fixed URL window so there is only one.
- More background image fixes.
- Fixed Copy/Paste bugs.
- Fixed JPEG caching bug.
- <head> tags are now closed and <body> tags are
- automatically opened when appropriate.
- Tried to fix some preferences file conversion
- problems.
- Removed memory leaks. Still some lurking...
- Lots of other minor bug fixes.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 14
- *****************************************************
-
- Background images and colors, and colored text have
- been added to this version of Mosaic. You can turn
- these options on and off in the Styles/Images
- dialog box.
- Fixed selection problems with backgrounds.
- Fixed initialization problems.
- Fixed strike thru.
- Fixed more pagination problems.
- Fixed Boyer-Moore searching text searching algorithm.
- Fixed URL encoding.
- Fixed "file:" string encodings.
- Fixed lots of other annoying bugs for your viewing pleasure.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 13
- *****************************************************
-
- Cache files on 68k and powerPC are now the same.
- More problems with backgound colors have been fixed
- and backgound images are now supported.
- Large tables are now handled more efficiently.
- Entities within default content for TEXTAREA is now
- handled.
- Some control redrawing problems within forms have been
- fixed.
- Some crashing bugs fixed.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 12
- *****************************************************
-
- More selection problems fixed.
- Parser problem with entities fixed.
- Can now have up to five history popup menus at a time.
- "View Source" always avaliable now. If the file is
- cached then you will be asked if you want to
- reload the page.
- Fixed various crashing bugs with interuption of a down load.
- Non blank space now converted to SP on copy.
- Images in tables when downloaded now cause proper repagination.
- TT is now called TeleType in the styles dialog.
- Code, Sample, etc, no longer inherit from TT. Each can
- have its own even spaced font style.
- Fixed occasional crash with submitting forms.
- Images loads in forms work.
- Fixed more background color problems with forms and lists.
- Sped up text searching by several orders of magnitude
- with Boyer-Moore searching algorithm.
- Fixed AppleEvent bug. Did not bring forward an already
- running helper application.
- Fixed memory failure problem.
- Fixed internal tag stack overflow problem.
- Fixed Mail-To Developers bug with not being able to quit.
- Fixed selection redraw problem when moving between
- applications.
- Unknown MIME types are now downloaded to a seperate file.
- Interupting the downloading into files no longer crashes.
-
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 11
- *****************************************************
-
- In certain cases, some of the text would not be
- displayed.
- A problem with margins has been fixed.
- Plaintext works properly.
- More table bug fixes.
- The apply button in the Styles dialog works.
- Problems changing line justification in the
- styles dialog has also been fixed.
-
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 10
- *****************************************************
-
- You can now create a new Hotlist.
- Find works.
- A crashing bug when clicking IsMaps multiple times
- is fixed.
- In very rare occasions, plain text files would
- contain mark-up.
- You can now create a new hotlist. That was broken.
- Some tables bugs have been fixed.
- Image align left and right work much better.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 9
- *****************************************************
-
- Sometimes, pagination would get caught in a
- loop and never return until memory was
- completely exhausted.
- Things were sometimes center that should not have
- been.
- Tables look a little better.
- More selection bugs have been fixed.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 8
- *****************************************************
-
- FTP crash fixed.
- A bug that would occasionally cause text to not
- be displayed was fixed.
- Netscape bookmarks can now be imported into the
- hotlist scheme in a more elegant fashion.
- Align property is now supported on the P tag.
- XMP tag now works.
- Occasionally an out of memory error was detected
- when it didn't actually exist.
- Table spacing is fixed.
- Selection bugs have been fixed.
- Image Align left and right are much better.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 7
- *****************************************************
-
- Anchor naming is correct now.
- GURL is supported, but still seems to not work
- properly in some cases.
- Problems with with the CENTER tag and IMG align
- left and align right are fixed.
- PREformated text has been fixed, as has PLAINTEXT.
- Find is two orders of magnitude faster. But occasionally
- the selection get messed up. Usually when the
- application has to scroll to show the new found
- selection. Just force the window to redraw when
- this occurs.
- Annotations have been fixed. Various bugs have
- been removed and reworked.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 6
- *****************************************************
-
- HTML Parser is much faster.
- Named anchor jumps in docs on local machines now works
- properly.
- Mailto URLs now work better, and more consistently.
- The status icons in the upper left of the window now
- reflect much more information. When a connection
- is being established, the globe wires display
- marching arrows, the yellow ball is displayed a
- a distance down the wire porportional to the
- percentage of the load that is completed, and
- the icon indicating pagination shows the portion
- of the doc that is completely paginated.
- View source now saves properly.
- The CENTER tag is supported.
- Additional HTML 3.0 support was added:
- Image align=left and align=right are supported.
- BIG and SMALL tags are supported.
- Carriage returns are mapped to carriage return/line
- feed in multiline form fields.
- A potential crashing bug that could occur when
- checking the mod date of a cached document
- is fixed.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 5
- *****************************************************
-
- GIF image offset display problem is fixed.
- Align attributes for HEAD tags is support.
- Anchors that are not terminated properly are handled
- gracefully.
- Visited link aging now works properly. If you visit a
- link once, the display color migrates toward the
- color of unvisited links.
- ALL temp files now get deleted, as well as hanging
- cache files.
- In certain instances, forms entry fields would not be
- displayed.
- Some problems with multiple submissions of one form
- have been fixed.
- The history pop up is now redrawn properly.
- A problem with multiple windows that would cause
- strangeness was fixed.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 4
- *****************************************************
-
- The ALIGN attribute is now supported for heads.
- Forms response encoding problems have been fixed.
- More backgound color problems have been fixed.
- Abort provides better response than befor. A hanging bug
- with aborting loads has also been fixed.
- Ridiculously long alt strings will now work properly,
- within reason.
-
- *****************************************************
- Release Notes For Beta 3
- *****************************************************
-
- Mail developers had a major bug in it that could cause a crash
- when you tryed to send the mail.
- The problem with entities (& escaped HTML) in the 68k version is
- fixed.
- A problem with table pagination that would cause crashes has been
- fixed.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 2
- *****************************************************
-
- If you have used NCSA Mosaic for the Mac 2.0.0 BETA 1, and you started
- with a new preferences file at that point, you don't need to trash your
- preferences again.
-
- Mosaic would crash sometimes if you moved off a page while it was
- still paginating, and then returned to it.
- Extracting tables from cache now works.
- Loading XBMs under certain circumstances previously could
- cause problems. It's fixed.
- Some probems with backgound colors have been fixed.
- It was previously possible to submit a form several times before the
- first submission was processed. This would cause a crash.
- Another problem with interrupting downloads has been fixed.
- A problem with HTML entitys has been fixed.
-
- *****************************************************
- Fixes For Beta 1
- *****************************************************
-
- SAVE THE EXISTING PREFERENCES FILE BEFORE RUNNING THIS VERSION OF NCSA
- MOSAIC. THERE IS AN EXISTING BUG THAT WILL CORRUPT THE PREFERENCES FILE
- IF THIS IS NOT DONE. REMOVE THE EXISTING COPY OF THE MOSAIC PREFERENCES
- FROM THE PREFERENCES FOLDER AND LAUNCH NCSA MOSAIC TO HAVE IT CREATE A
- NEW COPY
-
- Mailto: support
-
- NCSA Mosaic now supports the mailto: tag. A mail server for the
- user must be set in the "Preferences", under "Gates" before this
- feature is accessible.
-
- Local disk cache
-
- A local disk caching feature has been implemented. NCSA Mosaic will
- now retain copies of recently accessed documents to decrease the
- amount of time spent accessing the network. There is also a "Cache"
- section in the "Preferences...". Caching preferences should be set
- soon after starting this version of NCSA Mosaic. If this is not
- done, NCSA Mosaic will default to the System Folder as its cache
- directory resulting in a large number of cache files being saved
- to the System Folder.
-
- Inline images
-
- Inline JPEG support
-
- Adornments
- Inline images now have a option of being adorned (a border
- around the images)
-
- Alt tags
- Inline images that are not Auto-Loaded will display the alt
- tag for the image next to the placeholder if one exists.
-
- The above two features can be disabled through the "Styles..."
- dialog box in the "Images" section.
-
-
- Menu items have changed
-
- "Mail to Developers..." moved under the balloon help menu
- "Home" under "Navigate" has a new command key (command - \)
- "Hotlist" under "Navigate" has a new command key (command - h)
- "Use HTTP 0.9" has been removed from the "Options" menu
-
- Fixed
-
- Many performance enhancements
- "Add This Document" from the "Options" menu no longer causes crashes
- "Mail Developers..." should be working for the most part. There are
- still a few known problems (see known problems)
- Numerous pagination problems have been fixed.
- Tables bugs have been fixed.
- Printing problems have been fixed.
- Many bugs which caused crashes in the previous versions are fixed
-
-
- *****************************************************
- FULL FEATURE LIST for 2.0.0
- *****************************************************
-
- Forms
- Tables
- Inline JPEGs
- Local caching
- Strikethru, Superscript, and Subscript support
- Improved Error Reporting
- Improved Pagination
- User Configurable Color Background (default color is now gray)
- New Hotlist Interface (access from the Navigate menu)
- Custom Menus
- Quick Keys (more command key sequences added)
- Firewall Proxy support (including SOCKS support and standard
- gateway support)
- URL entries (users can now make URL entries in the URL field at the
- top of the screen when Show URLs is on. Hitting return activates the
- link.)
- ODOC event support, and Applescript Open URL support with the
- option to load to disk
- Reload button
-