Setting up NCSA Mosaic for Macintosh

Just copy NCSA Mosaic for Macintosh to your hard disk.

External Viewers

To view external files, use the following viewers:

JPEGView for JPEG/GIF files. Available by anon ftp from sumex- aim.stanford.edu in /info-mac/Graphic/Utility/jpeg-view-30.hqx.
Sparkle 1.6 for MPEG files. Available by anon ftp at sumex-aim in /info- mac/Graphic/Utility/sparkle-16.hqx. Requires QuickTime and 68020+.
UlawPlay1.0b for AU files. It is available by anon ftp from mac.archive.umich.edu in /mac/sound/soundutil/ulaw1.4.cpt.hqx.
SimplePlayer for QuickTime movies. You can get it wherever you have gotten QuickTime. If someone knows an anonymous ftp location, please e-mail mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
DeHqx for BinHex files. It is available by anon ftp from sumex- aim, in /info-mac/Compress-Translate/dehqx-201.hqx.
Ghostview for PostScript files. Available by black magic from ftp.nisc.sri.com, in directory /outgoing/adrian/macGS. Someone please correct me if this is not the proper site.
PhotoShop for TIFF files. PhotoShop is a commercial product.

FTP Sites: This is a comprehensive listing of anonymous FTP sites. This listing is not being actively maintained; it is provided as a proof-of-concept. We encourage others to maintain such a listing and make it available to the network. The external viewers are completely customizable in the Beta 1 release. Mosaic creates temporary files in the "Temporary Items" folder if available, otherwise in the "System Folder". Files that are not saved automatically (user is asked for file name), are not deleted.

Making the External Viewers Work

The external viewers are applications such as TeachText, Photoshop, Simple Player etc. In order for NCSA Mosaic to recognize which viewer to launch the document Must have an extension on the file name which identifies its type The document is given the extension when is created by the Author. For more information on How to use External Viewers.

HTML documents HTML
GIF images GIF
X Bitmaps XBM
Pict Images PICT
AU Audio Files AU
JPeg Compressed Images JPG or JPEG
MPeg Movies MPG or MPEG
QuickTime Movies MOV
BinHexed Files HQX
Plain Text TXT

Tips and hidden functionality:

"Load to disk" option will let you save your next download to disk regardles of what it is. It is useful for obtaining source of HTML documents, and downloading unknown file types to disk, instead of text window.
Holding an option key down whenever new document is opened creates a new window.
To open local html files and view them as hypertext, give them .html extension.
You can have inline images in PICT format. Use .pict extension. This feature will not be supported by browsers on other platforms.
Since hotlists are documents, you can rapidly switch between them by opening them from the Hotlist menu.
Over slow network, turn off automatic image loading in Preferences

Macintosh Development Team - Software Development Group