Mosaic Navigation

Portions of this document were grabbed from the NCSA Mosaic documentaion

Navigating the WWW with Mosaic

Following Hyperlinks

Mosaic provides an easy-to-use point & click interface to the World Wide Web. A single-click with the left mouse button on a hyperlink (highlighted phrase or image) causes Mosaic to retrieve the document associated with that link, and display it in the Document View window. If the document does not fit in the window, use the vertical and horizontal scrollbars or arrow buttons to view the rest. The arrow keys will also move the scrollbars. You can scroll through a document even while a network transfer is in progress.

Back through the History

The Document View window maintains a window history, recording every document you visit. Clicking with the left mouse button on the Back button travels back through the window history, as does selecting Back from the Navigate menu, or pressing b (a hotkey). After travelling back through the window history, subsequent hyperlinks will write over the existing window history from that point, as expected.

Forward

After moving back one or more documents through the window history, the Forward button will travel forward through the already-determined window history, as if the previously-selected hyperlinks are selected again. Selecting Forward from the Navigate menu or hitting the hotkey f has the same effect.

The Window History List

Travelling back and forward through a Document View window's history can also be achieved with the Window History feature under the Navigate menu. Mosaic can jump to any document in the window history, forward or back. Simply double-click on any document title to do so.

Home Document

When Amiga Mosaic is first executed, it retrieves and displays the "home document." By default, this is the Amiga Mosaic Home Page, but your copy of Mosaic may be configured to use a different home page (probably a local document that does not have to be retrieved from a distant server). To jump to the home document, click the Home button or use the Home Document feature under the Navigate menu. Note that Mosaic will add the home document to the window history, rather than jumping to the first node in the window history list (which is not necessarily the home document).

Aborting Document Transfers

Occasionally, you may want to abort the retrieval of large documents or documents stored on distant servers which require greater transfer time. At any point in a data transfer process (hostname lookups excepted), you can click on the flasing icon in the lower right corner of the window to stop the current network action.

If this doesn't work, you can send Amiga Mosaic a break signal from the CLI. If you started Amiga Mosaic from the CLI in the foreground (i.e. you did not use run, pressing CTRL-C in the CLI should work. Otherwise, look up the ID number of AmigaMosaic with the Status command, and type Break C Process-ID.