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- <H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Welcome to
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/">NCSA </A>
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html">
- Mosaic</A>
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/trademark.html">
- ™</A>
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- for <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft Windows ™</A>
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-
- NCSA Mosaic is an Internet navigation and data retrieval tool that allows you to
- access network information with the click of a mouse button. Mosaic is capable of
- accessing data from World Wide Web servers (HTTP), Gopher servers, FTP servers and
- Usenet News servers (NNTP). Mosaic can also access other data services through
- gateway servers. These services provide search capabilities in database environments
- such as PH, Archie, WAIS, and Veronica. NCSA Mosaic software is copyright 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 to use the Mosaic software for personal,
- academic, research, United States government and internal business purposes.
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- Mosaic is a Win32 application and is native to Windows 95 and Windows NT and Mosaic
- will operate under Windows 3.1x and Windows for Workgroups 3.1x with the Win32s
- subsystem installed.
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- <H2 ALIGN=CENTER>NCSA Mosaic 2.0 Release Notes </H2>
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- <TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="#Win32s">Win32s Update Information</A></TD></TR>
- <TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="#Feature">Features, Enhancements and Bug Fixes</A></TD></TR>
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- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="Win32s">Win32s Update Information</A></H3>
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- <H4> Windows NT Users and Window 95 Users</H4>
- Windows NT and Win95 users don't need Win32s. The operating systems
- are 32-bit operating systems with OLE support built-in. Do not install
- Win32s on WinNT or Win95 systems.
- <P>
-
- <H4>Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups Users</H4>
- The Latest Release of Win32s is: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Windows/w32sOLE.exe">
- Win32s with OLE, version 1.25</A>
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- <P>
- This latest version of Win32s addresses the National Language Support problem and
- the compobj.dll problem some Windows users were experiencing with Win32s v1.20. We recommend you
- upgrade to this latest version if you use a language other than English(American) in your Windows
- environment. We also recommend you upgrade if you have experienced problems with the compobj.dll
- library while using Microsoft Office, Excel or Word. In general, if you are NOT experiencing
- problems with Win32s v1.20, upgrading to Win32s v1.25 is not necessary.
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- <A NAME="Feature"><H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Features, Enhancements, and Bug fixes</H3></A>
- <HR WIDTH=380 SIZE=4>
- Wow... It's finally here. After a year and a half of Alpha and Beta testing, NCSA is pleased
- to announce the official release of NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows version 2.0. Version
- 2.0 is definitely a step in the right direction and we feel it is a solid piece of software.
- We've taken our time and have addressed numerous bugs, we've added an informative Help file
- and we're touching ground on some new concepts and features. These include:
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- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Features and Enhancements</H3>
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- <P ALIGN=CENTER><B>**</B><I>Check the Mosaic Help file for details about the new feature.</I>
- </P>
- <UL>
- <LI><B>**</B> Collaborative Sessions
- <LI><B>**</B> Advanced Hotlist Manager
- <LI><B>**</B> AutoSurf
- <LI><B>**</B> Network Timeout defined as a preference
- <LI><B>**</B> Printing Preferences Sheet
- <LI><B>**</B> Document Preferences Sheet
- <LI><B>**</B> News Preferences Sheet
- <LI><B>**</B> Directories Preferences Sheet
- <LI><B>**</B> Window Preferences Sheet
- <LI><B>**</B> Inline FTP messages
- <LI><B>**</B> Optional Day, Date & Time information displayed in status bar
- <LI><B>**</B> Help menu changes with a convenient link to a
- <A HREF="resource.htm">Online Resources</A> file.
- <LI><B>**</B>Additional News Toolbar functionality
- <LI><B>**</B> New Command Line Options
- <LI><B>**</B> Stop Button in Toolbar
- <LI>Asynchronous non-blocking socket calls
- <LI><A HREF="#RMB">New Right Mouse Button Features</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#WAV">Internal support for .wav audio files</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#HTML">New HTML support</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#HOT">New Hot Key Mappings</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#CACHEDIR">Multiple Cache directories</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#REFERRER">Referrer field sent to HTTPd</A>
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- </UL>
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- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Squashed Bugs</H3>
- <HR WIDTH=150 SIZE=4>
- <UL>
- <LI> Numerous Forms Bugs
- <LI> Internal .au support removed. Use a viewer like
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/Viewers/wplany.htm">wplany</A>.
- <LI> Background color in 256 color mode looks much better.
- <LI> Several Find related bugs.
- <LI> Network related abort bugs addressed.
- <LI> Socket problems are gone!
- <LI> Printing greatly improved.
- <LI> Printing Transparent Images works
- <LI> FTP bugs fixed.
- </UL>
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- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Known Bugs with version 2.0 :(</H3>
- <HR WIDTH=150 SIZE=4>
- <UL>
- <LI>Users of Windows 3.1 will not be able to host a collaborative session. Windows 3.11, Windows 95
- & Windows NT users will be able to host a collaborative session.
- <LI>The Microsoft Mail Address Book crashes while Mosaic is running under Windows & WfW 3.1x. We've
- checked and tested Mosaic and can't seem to find a problem with Mosaic. We've contacted Microsoft and hope
- to have this problem resolved soon. We will post any information we receive from Microsoft on our
- home page.
- <LI>Some of the white backgrounds are appearing as an ugly shade of green in Mosaic Help while in
- 256 color mode.
- </UL>
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-
- <HR>
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="RMB">New Right Mouse Button Features</A></H4>
- <HR WIDTH=300 SIZE=4>
-
- <DL>
- <DT>Add Anchor To Hotlist<BR>
- <DD>Adds the current document to your hotlist.
- <DT>Document Header Information
- <DD>Queries the information server for size and date information about the
- current file.
-
- <DT><H5>Advanced Hotlist Manager</H5>
- <DL>
- <DT>The following right mouse button options can be applied to both hotlist
- folder and hotlist items.
- <DD>Properties
- <DD>Delete
- <DD>Alphabetize Folder
- <DD>AutoSurf Folder
- <DD>Update Time Stamps in Folder
- <DD>What's New in Folder/Item
- <DD>What's New Since...
- </DL>
-
- <HR>
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="WAV">Internal WAV Support</A></H4>
- <HR WIDTH=190 SIZE=4>
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- Mosaic supports WAV audio files internally. Use the Viewers Preferences menu to configure
- Mosaic to display images within the Mosaic windows. Open the viewers preferences menu and
- scroll or add the audio/x-wav & audio/wav MIME types. In the "Associate MIME Type of:"
- field, enter "internal" in the "To This Application" field. For Example:
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- <TR><TH>Associate MIME Type of:</TH><TD>audio/wav</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Description of MIME Type:</TH><TD>WAV audio file</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>With this/these Extension:</TH><TD>.wav</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>To This Application:</TH><TD>internal</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
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- <HR>
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="HOT">New Hot Key Mappings</A></H4>
- <HR WIDTH=200 SIZE=4>
- <P ALIGN=CENTER>
- <TABLE>
- <TR><TD><B>Find</B></TD><TD>Alt + F3</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD><B>Find Again</B></TD><TD>F3</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD><B>Stop Transfer</B></TD><TD>S</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
- </P>
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- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="CACHEDIR">Multiple Cache directories</A></H4>
- <HR WIDTH=220 SIZE=4>
- Mosaic can use multiple cache directories. Simply change the cache directory in the
- Cache Preferences sheet and Mosaic will use that directory. You can build several
- cache directories and use anyone one you wish to work from.
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- <HR>
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="HTML">New HTML Support</A></H3>
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- <P ALIGN=CENTER>
- <H5 ALIGN=CENTER><B><I>Mosaic is
- <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_toc.html">
- HTML 2.0 </A> compliant</I></B></H5>
- </P>
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-
- <DL>
- <DT><B><CITE> </CITE></B>
- <DD>Citation(CITE) is used to indicate the title of a book or another
- citation.
- <P>
- <DT><B><CODE> </CODE></B>
- <DD>CODE is used to indicate example code.
- <P>
- <DT><B><KBD> </KBD></B>
- <DD>Keyboard(KBD) elements indicate text typed by a user. Usually used in
- instruction manuals.
- <P>
- <DT><B><SAMP> </SAMP></B>
- <DD>Used in a sequence of literal characters.
- <P>
- <DT><B><VAR> </VAR></B>
- <DD>VAR is used as a place holder variable and are usually rendered in
- italic.
- <P>
- <DT><B><TT> </TT></B>
- <DD>Teletype(TT) text is mono-spaced.
- <P>
- <DT><B><BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE></B>
- <DD>Block Quote text has a left and right indent. Mosaic also supports
- nested block quotes.
- <P>
-
- <DT><B><META></B>
- <DD>Allows Mosaic to be prompted to display another HTML page after a defined number of
- seconds.
- </DL>
- <P>
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- <H5 ALIGN=CENTER>HTML 3.0 draft and proposed HTML tags</H5>
- <DL>
- <DT><B> </B>
- <DD>The non-breaking space entity.
- <P>
-
- <DT><B><SOUND SRC="audio.*"></B>
- <DD>This proposed new HTML tag has not yet been approved by the HTML working group.
- This tag enables the use of audio files for in-line sound. Inline sound files can
- be placed in any part of the document and Mosaic will act on the sound file when its
- position is visible to the document view window. Sound files can implemented as
- a background sounds using the LOOP attribute. An HTML author can also delay the
- play of an inline sound for X number of seconds using the DELAY attribute.
- <P ALIGN=CENTER>
- <B><I>NOTE: Microsoft's <BGSOUND> is supported</I></B>
- </P>
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- <DL>
- <DT>The Attributes of the sound tag are:
- <DD><B>LOOP=infinite</B> and <B>DELAY=sec</B>.
- <DT>Examples:
- <DD><B><SOUND SRC="*.wav" LOOP=infinite></B>
- <DD><B><SOUND SRC="*.wav" DELAY=10></B>
- </DL>
- </DL>
-
- <HR>
- <P>
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="REFERRER">Referrer Field Support</A></H3>
- <HR WIDTH=210 SIZE=4>
-
- The referrer field is sent to an HTTPd when "Send Referer Field" is active in the
- preferences settings and you make a request for a document. The referrer
- field is used by HTTPD administrators for statistical purposes to determine the
- origin of their network traffic. This field is optional and can be turned
- off from the Document Preference sheet.
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- That's about it. We hope you enjoy this latest release of NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows.
- Version 3.0 is closer than you might think. <B><I>;^)</I></B>
- <P>Questions, Suggestions, Comments, Wishes, etc...... send'em to:
- <P ALIGN=CENTER>
- <ADDRESS>
- <A HREF="mailto:mosaic-w@ncsa.uiuc.edu">mosaic-w@ncsa.uiuc.edu</A><BR>
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/">
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications</A><BR>
- <A HREF="http://www.uiuc.edu/">
- The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign</A>
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