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NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh 2.0.0 ALPHA8
The Alpha 8 version of NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh 2.0 was
released Wednesday, September 16, 1994.
This is an ALPHA release, therefore there are many new features or
bugs that you will need to be aware of to make your use of the new
release a pleasant experience. You may encounter problems that
will cause your machine to crash. You may not find certain aspects
of the program aesthetically pleasing, and the program will trash
your current preferences.
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IMPORTANT!!!
Please make a copy of your 1.0.3 preferences file (Mosaic
Preferences) before using the alpha version.
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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 mac-mosaic@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.
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HOW TO GET NCSA MOSAIC
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NCSA Mosaic is available via anonymous ftp. Please enter
'anonymous' as the name and your complete email address as the
password.
site: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
location: /Mosaic/Mac
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.
USA:
site: sunsite.unc.edu
location: /pub/packages/infosystems/WWW (all versions)
Canada:
site: journal.biology.carleton.ca
location: /pub/mirrors/ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic (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
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To UnStuff & UnBinHex NCSA Mosaic we recommend that you use
StuffIt Expander. The expander is available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
and other ftp sites. To unbinhex StuffIt Expander you will also
need binhex.macbinary (which can be found in /Mac/Utilities at
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu).
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2.0.0 ALPHA 8 Release Features
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Bug Fixes
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Passwords are now hidden in forms & server authorization
Documents in navigate menu don't dim when the window is closed
Multiple submit buttons per form are supported
Reset button default names are correct
Nested list indentation has been fixed
Annotations have been fixed
Jumps within a document are now added to the history list
Form Inputs of tag type image work
Quit was sometimes disabled when it shouldn't have been.
Popup menus in forms
Text files are displayed properly (aren't they?)
Styles dialog is no longer too big for smaller screens
Buttons in hotlist dialog dim properly
Go Away box added to custom menu
Buttons in custom menu dialog dim properly
Styles dialog is no longer too big for smaller screens.
Transparency works
and many more.........
NEW FEATURES
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View Source
Custom Menus
Import X & MS Windows hotlists
Export Mac hotlists to HTML format used by X & MS Windows
versions.
ALT tag on images is now supported.
When the mouse passes over the arrow portion of an unloaded
image the hyperlink URL appears in the status box.
When the mouse passes over the image portion of an unloaded
image the ALT text (if any is defined) appears in the status box.
If there is no ALT, the URL for the image is displayed. If the
image is loaded, the ALT text is displayed, or if the image is
an ismap, that will be indicated.
Figures are now supported.
For a complete list of new features implemented for the 2.0.0
release, see 2.0.0 Alpha1 release information below.
KNOWN BUGS
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Save As...HTML is still broken. This option will be removed.
Printing bugs still exist (only one page will print, grayscale option
causes printout to be 1/2 gray)
Still not handling out-of-memory properly
Speech recognition has been turned off until Apple releases 1.2.1 of
the speech recognition extension.
Copy is not working still
Sometimes, images at start of a following line is select when it
shouldn't be
Captions on tables is not implemented
On a write protected file server, cannot complete QUIT "because you
don't have the necessary access privileges"
BLOCKQUOTE initially shows up as size 30 point type
Inlined images occasionally don't display when redisplaying a doc
that was extracted from cache
second access to a telnet session hangs the machine
inline image load fails when loading to disk
Resize the window then bring back a cached document - cached doc
needs to be repaginated
FEATURE LIST for 2.0.0
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Forms
Tables
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
FILE MENU
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Open URL: Mosaic now remembers last URL entered into the Open
URL window
View Source
Options Menu
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Use This URL for Home: Allows you to select the current document to
be used as the new home page. This is automatically saved in the
preferences file.
Use Header Mode: This feature allows you to get additional
information about a link without causing you to connect to that link.
The information, which includes: file type, modification date, file size,
and server information, appears in a separate window.
There are two ways to access it: 1) Through the Options Menu, turn
Use Header Mode on, then click on a link to get the information. 2)
When Use Header Mode is off, command-click on a link to access the
same information.
Preferences
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The preferences window has been completely rewritten to make it
easier to modify.
The preferences dialog has been divided into a series of functional
categories. These include: Miscellaneous, Links, Directories, Gates.
(more to be added later)
Background Color: now user modifiable
Global History List: Mosaic now maintains a history of links between
sessions. The user can determine the number of entries that may be
included in the Global History, or they may choose to remove files
from the Global History that are older than 'n' days.
Link Colors: Visited link colors fade to the unvisited link colors as
they mature. This may be turned on or off as desired.
Set Hotlist Directory: Set this to a folder that contains your hotlists
and all hotlists will be readily available in the new hotlist window.
No need to load each one individually!
FIREWALL: You can set Mosaic to use CERN Proxy Service or SOCKS
service!
Styles:
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The styles window has been completely rewritten to make it
easier to use.
Custom Menus:
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Any hotlist or url can be added to a user defined menu.
Hotlists
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X & MS Windows hotlists can be imported (from Hotlist dialog)
Mac hotlists can be exported.
The export format is HTML therefore the exported hotlists can
be opened as local HTML files or imported by the X & MS
Windows versions.
Special Features
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Speech Recognition: This has been implemented and will be available
as soon as Apple releases their Speech Recognition extension. This
feature has not been turned on in this alpha release.
WISH LIST for the final 2.0 release
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Save window size and location between sessions
Confirm box to verify that the user really wants to close the current
Mosaic window
Remember last entered item in the Find window
Remember the location of Custom Menu dialog
Remember the location of the Hotlist dialog.