Welcome to NCSA Mosaic ™ for Microsoft Windows ™

NCSA Mosaic is an Internet navigation and data retrieval tool. It 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 provides transparent access to these information sources and services. 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, government and internal business purposes. For information about licensing or distributing Mosaic see the FAQs at the end of this document.

Mosaic is a Win32 application and is compatible with Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows NT and Windows 95. The Windows NT operating system is available for the following processors:

iX86 - Intel's iX86 Processors and compatibles

aXP - Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) aXP processor

MIPS - Mips Technology processors

PPC - The Motorola PowerPC

NCSA Mosaic Final Beta Release Notes

mosaic.ini Update Information

Win32s Update Information

Features, Enhancements and Bug Fixes

mosaic.ini Update Information

The Mosaic initialization file, mosaic.ini, is completely user configurable from the Options, Preferences... menus.

"Do not edit the mosaic.ini file with an ASCII editor."

Win32s Update Information

Windows NT users and Win95 beta-testers: 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.
Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups Users: Latest Release: Win32s with OLE, version 1.25; 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.

Features, Enhancements, and Bug fixes

Dead Bugs

Hotlist manager more stable and shouldn't crash.
Document source is displayed for cached and local files.
Text and images within the same cell of a table get formatted correctly.
Printing has been improved.
Print not sizing properly (right margin truncating words)
Forms controls are sized according to the form control font.
Many other forms related bugs have been fixed
Palette problems in 256 color mode should be fixed.
URLs larger than 256 characters won't crash Mosaic.
Win 95 scroll crashing and scroll related problems
Find/Search won't crash
< IMG SRC=" " > && < IMG SRC= > don't crash
<Hn>...</Hn> tags inside <HEAD> no longer cause all normal text to appear as <Hn>
Other <HEAD> related bugs fixed
Document source displays before the images are paginated.
Mosaic won't download files after you cancel an unrecognized MIME type.
proxy server definitions: http://machine.name:portnumber/ == machine.name:portnumber
Newsgroup updates w/o defined NNTP server won't hang Mosaic.
Tables: text wrapping within a cell won't take on the characteristics of the <address> font
Mosaic will find internal anchors in stand alone mode.
Mosaic will let Telnet apps take to foreground.
<A HREF=""> and <A HREF=" "> are ignored.
mailto: from location bar works. ie. mailto:jdoe@your.com
Mosaic recognizes SMTP IP number addressing.
Incorrect password for FTP login allows you to retype the password.
many more dead bugs.......

Internal Image Support

Mosaic supports GIF and JPEG image files internally. Use the Viewers Preferences menu to configure Mosaic to display images within the Mosaic windows. Open the viewers preferences menu and scroll to the image/gif MIME type. When image/gif is displayed in the "Associate MIME Type of:" field, enter "internal" in the "To This Application" field. For Example:

Associate MIME Type of:	image/gif
Description of MIME Type:	Image File Format - GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
With this/these Extension:	.gif
To This Application:	internal

Make the same change to the image/jpeg MIME type.

Toolbar interface for NEWS

The Mosaic News Toolbar is another interface to the newsgroup tools. The toolbar can be moved to any border on the window or it can stand alone out side of the Mosaic window. To move the toolbar select an area in the toolbar between the buttons, left click and drag the toolbar to the desired location.

A list of tools available from the news toolbar. From left to right:

Previous Article View the previous news article

Next Article View the next news article

Previous Topic View the previous news topic

Next Topic View the next news topic

Post Post an article to the present newsgroup

Follow-up Publically reply to an article in a newsgroup

Reply Privately reply to the author of a newsgroup article.

Article List Return to the list of news artilces

Catch up Mark all files a being read.

Next Newsgroup View articles from your next listed newsgroup.

Previous Newsgroup View articles from the previous newsgroup.

New Subscriptions Open the News Subscriptions page to update the current list of newsgroups.

Previous Article	View the previous news article
Next Article	View the next news article
Previous Topic	View the previous news topic
Next Topic	View the next news topic
Post	Post an article to the present newsgroup
Follow-up	Publically reply to an article in a newsgroup
Reply	Privately reply to the author of a newsgroup article.
Article List	Return to the list of news artilces
Catch up	Mark all files a being read.
Next Newsgroup	View articles from your next listed newsgroup.
Previous Newsgroup	View articles from the previous newsgroup.
New Subscriptions	Open the News Subscriptions page to update the current list of newsgroups.

Help

Mosaic supports Windows help. The mosaic.hlp file was installed in the Mosaic directory during Mosaic's installation. You can open the Mosaic help from the Help menu, the question mark on the toolbar or by selecting F1 from the keyboard. Mosaic help is context sensitive and you click on the area where you need help.

New HTML Support

HTML 3.0 BODY tag attributes

Spice up your web documents with Background images; change the color of the background, the text, unvisited links and visited links. The following attributes to the body tag allow you to add character to your Web documents. We've put a few sample background image files together on our home page. Check them out. ;^)

Here is a sample of a BODY tag with the image and color attributes:
<BODY BACKGROUND="mosaicbk.gif" BGCOLOR=#C0C0C0 TEXT=#000000 LINK=#0000FF VLINK=#FF0000 >

BACKGROUND="mosback2.gif" Defines the path to an image.

BGCOLOR=#C0C0C0 Defines the background color

TEXT=#000000 Defines the text color

LINK=#0000FF Defines an unvisited link color

VLINK=#FF0000 Defines the visited link color

#0000FF Defines the RGB value of a color

# = define, 00 = R, 00 = G, FF = B

For Example #C0C0C0 = Grey
#000000 = Black
#0000FF = Blue
#00FF00 = Green

Base Address

<BASE="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/">
The BASE element is defined in the HEAD of a document. It is used to define the base address of a document to help resolve relative links from the document.
mailto: Title Attribute

You can enter a default message title or subject from your mailto references.

New FTP Support

Mosaic's FTP supports both active and passive FTP connections. With the addition of Active FTP support, Mosaic should be able to connect to any FTP server on the Internet.
Mosaic has support of the FTP "put" command. You can transfer a file from your machine to a remote machine using this right mouse menu feature. The feature is only active when you log into an FTP server. By default Mosaic tries to FTP via anonymous FTP. However, using following syntax in the location field you can FTP to any machine you have an account.
ftp://jdoe@your.com
Mosaic prompts you for a login password. After you've logged in, you can put files on the remote machine using the "Upload File to Server" option from the right mouse menu.

Hot Key Mapping
New hot key mappings

Alt+Enter	Opens the Preferences menus
A or a	Add to hotlist
End	End is mapped to the bottom of the current page.

MD5 Authentication

Mosaic supports HTTPD v1.1 MD5 access authentication.

Sound Scheme Mapping

The Audio preferences menu has an additional feature to allow you to save sound schemes as separate files. The sound scheme files map the current Mosaic features to WAVE audio files and save the associations in a file with the .snd extension. We've had a lot of fun putting together various sound schemes. Check them out.

mosaic-w@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

BACKGROUND="mosback2.gif"	Defines the path to an image.
BGCOLOR=#C0C0C0	Defines the background color
TEXT=#000000	Defines the text color
LINK=#0000FF	Defines an unvisited link color
VLINK=#FF0000	Defines the visited link color
#0000FF	Defines the RGB value of a color
# = define, 00 = R, 00 = G, FF = B
For Example	#C0C0C0 = Grey #000000 = Black #0000FF = Blue #00FF00 = Green

Welcome to NCSA Mosaic ™ for Microsoft Windows ™

NCSA Mosaic Final Beta Release Notes

Table of contents

Windows NT users and Win95 beta-testers

Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups Users

Latest Release: Win32s with OLE, version 1.25

Features, Enhancements, and Bug fixes

Features and Enhancements

Dead Bugs