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- Version 1.1 of NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System, a networked
- information systems and World Wide Web browser, is now available:
-
- file://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/xmosaic-source/xmosaic-1.1.tar.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-sun.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-sun-lresolv.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-sgi.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-ibm.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-dec.Z
- .../xmosaic-binaries/xmosaic-alpha.Z
- .../xmosaic-diffs/xmosaic-1.0-1.1-diffs.Z
-
- NCSA Mosaic provides a consistent and easy-to-use hypermedia-based
- interface into a wide variety of networked information sources,
- including Gopher, WAIS, World Wide Web, NNTP/Usenet news, Techinfo,
- FTP, local filesystems, Archie, finger, Hyper-G, HyTelnet, TeXinfo,
- telnet, tn3270, and more.
-
- This release of NCSA Mosaic is known to compile on the following
- platforms:
-
- SGI (IRIX 4.0.2)
- IBM (AIX 3.2)
- Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1.2 with stock X11R4 and Motif 1.1).
- DECstation 5000-200 (Ultrix).
- DEC Alpha (OSF/1).
-
- Rumor has it that Mosaic will compile on systems like:
-
- Hewlett Packard HP/UX 7.x, 8.x, 9.x.
- Dell SVR4
- Sun Solaris 2.x
- SCO Open Desktop
- Harris Nighthawk
- NeXT BSD
-
- Documentation is available online.
-
- Changes since 1.0 include:
-
- o Hotkeys in document view windows.
- o Color leaks and glitches in inlined image support fixed.
- o Support for TMPDIR environment variable, as well as resource
- tmpDirectory and command-line flag -tmpdir, for specifying
- location of tmp directory for transient data files.
- o Added GUI-supported modification of hotlist entry titles.
- o Added ISMAP tag support to IMG tag (courtesy Tony Sanders).
- o CSO phonebook support (courtesy Lou Montulli).
- o Added printing/saving straight to PostScript (courtesy Ameet A. Raval).
- No support for images yet, though.
- o Fixed typo in Motif 1.2 support in HTML widget.
- o Fixed typo (nothing was broken, just caused it to be a little slow
- sometimes) in document page handling.
- o Two spaces between sentences in pretty selections now.
- o SGML comments are now ignored.
- o Updated copyright notice.
- o Documentation hyperlinks point straight to new NCSA server.
- o Mosaic can now be remotely controlled via signals by a parent process;
- e.g., to allow use as a browser for context-sensitive help from another
- application. More information coming...
- o Default rgbViewerCommand is now 'xv' on non-SGI platforms, since xv
- 3.0 now handles SGI RGB files.
- o New WAIS interface document, pointing to NCSA gateway.
- o URL of document is now sent in 'Mail To...' messages.
- o <cite> now supported.
- o <blockquote> now supported.
- o <var> now uses italics.
- o Fixed rare parsing/layout coredumps.
- o Fixed rare pretty selection coredumps.
- o Fixed stupid memory and file-handling glitches; made hotlist and other
- config file-handling much more robust.
- o Properly handle (nuke) newlines in titles and URL's now.
- o Fixed rare stupid coredumps in Motif lists.
- o No more coredump when saving/printing/mailing empty file.
- o Mosaic now has no default geometry resource value. Initial window
- placement and toplevel dialog placement will be entirely according to
- your window manager's settings.
- o Added resource percentVerticalSpace to allow customization of the space
- between paragraphs, between headers and paragraphs, etc. in the HTML
- widget.
- o Fixed coredump when starting Mosaic with home page a directory with
- no slashes in the specification.
- o Added recognition of '.gz' for gzip'd files, as per GNU change.
- o Fixed glitch with X bitmaps served by Gopher servers as inlined images.
- o Added editres support.
- o Added Motif 1.2 tearoff menu support.
- o Better DEC Alpha OSF/1 support.
- o Better Dell SVR4 support.
- o A few more source cleanups for NeXT support.
- o Reorganized Documents menu and added new options to Help menu.
- o Added support for group annotation server (not yet available).
- o Cleaned up src/Makefile (some).
- o Suffixes .dump and .saveme are now recognized and trigger binary
- file dump to local disk.
- o Busy cursor now shows up more often, like it should.
- o HDF files are now recognized and passed to Collage via Collage's -load
- option, which isn't yet in a released version.
- o Miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups.
-
- Comments, questions, and bug reports should be sent to
- mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Thanks in advance for any feedback you can
- provide.
-
- Cheers,
- Marc & Eric
-
-