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- <HTML>
- <HEAD>
- <TITLE>Welcome to NCSA Mosaic v2.0.0 Beta 4</TITLE>
- </HEAD>
-
-
- <BODY>
- <H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Welcome to
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/">NCSA </A>
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html">
- Mosaic</A>
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/trademark.html">
- ™</A>
- for the <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft Windows ™</A>
- Operating Systems
- </H2>
-
- NCSA Mosaic is an Internet navigation and data retrevial tool that will
- allow you to access networked information with the click of a mouse button.
- Mosaic is capable of accessing data from the World Wide Web servers (HTTP),
- Gopher servers, FTP servers and News servers (NNTP). Mosaic can access
- other data services through gateway servers. These services provide you
- search capabilities in database environments such as PH, Archie, WAIS,
- and Veronica. NCSA Mosaic was designed to provide its user transparent
- access to these information sources and services. NCSA Mosaic software
- is copyrighted by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (UI),
- and ownership remains with the UI. The UI grants you a license to use the
- Software for academic, research and internal business purposes only,
- without a fee.
-
-
- <P>
-
- <B>Mosaic is a 32-bit application.</B> This means Mosaic is compatable
- 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:
- <P>
-
- <DL>
- <DD><B>iX86</B> - Intel's iX86 Processors and compatibles
- <DD><B>aXP</B> - Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) aXP processor
- <DD><B>MIPS</B> - Mips Technology processors
- <DD><B>PPC</B> - The Motorola PowerPC
- </DL>
-
-
- <HR>
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Version 2.0.0 Beta X - Release Notes</H3>
- <HR>
-
- <H3>Table of contents</H3>
-
- <A HREF="#mosaic.ini">MOSAIC.INI Update Information</A>
- <P>
- <A HREF="#Win32s">Win32s Update Information</A>
- <P>
- <A HREF="#Feature">Features, Enhancements and Bug Fixes</A>
- <DL>
- <DD><A HREF="#Beta4">Beta 4</A>, <A HREF="#Beta3">Beta 3</A>, <A HREF="#Beta2">Beta 2</A>,
- <A HREF="#Beta1">Beta 1</A>
- </DL>
-
- <HR>
-
-
- <H2 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="mosaic.ini">MOSAIC.INI Update Information</A></H2>
-
- Mosaic users no longer need to edit the mosaic.ini file with an ASCII editor.
- "ALL" user configurable options are available from the <B>Options,
- Preferences... menus.</B>
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DD><B><I>"Do Not edit the mosaic.ini file with an ASCII editor."</I></B>
- </DL>
-
- <HR>
-
- <H2 ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="Win32s">Win32s Update Information</A></H2>
-
- <DL>
- <DT><H4> Windows NT users and Win95 beta-testers</H4>
- <DD>Windows NT and Win95 users don't need Win32s. The operating systems
- are 32-bit operating systems with OLE support built-in.
- <P>
- <DT><H4>Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups Users</H4>
- <DD><B>You MUST install WIN32S BEFORE you install Mosaic.</B>
- Win3.1(3.11) and Windows for Workgroups 3.1(WfW3.11) are 16-bit operating systems
- and you'll need to use Microsoft's Win32s software. This software will allow you
- to run 32-bit applications in Windows 3.1 or WfW 3.11. Since Mosaic is also an OLE
- compatible application, and <B>Mosaic users must</B> use Win32s with the
- OLE.
-
- <P>
- <DD>The latest version of Win32s, <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Windows/w32s125.exe">v1.25</a>,
- was released by Microsoft to address the National Language Support problem and the compobj.dll
- problems some Windows users were experiencing with Win32s v1.20.
-
- We recommend you upgrade to this latest version if you
- prefer to use a language other than English(American) in your Windows environment, OR if
- you experiencing problems with the compobj.dll library while using Microsoft Office,
- Excel or Word. <B><I> In general, if you are NOT experiencing problems with Win32s
- v1.20, upgrading to Win32s v1.25 is not required at this time.
- </I></B>
-
- </DL>
-
- <HR>
- <A NAME="Feature"><H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Features, Enhancements, and Bug fixes</H1></A>
-
- <A NAME="Beta4"><HR></A>
-
- <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Beta 4 Release Notes</H1>
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Features, Enhancements, and Bug fixes</H3>
- <HR>
- <B>Features and Enhancements:</B>
- <UL>
- <LI><A HREF="#globe">Global History</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#b4cache">Cache Management Improvements</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#b4tags">New <B>HTML 3.0 </B> Tag Attributes</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#b4URL">URL list box</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#b4cci">New CCI function</A>
- <LI>Improvements in memory allocation
-
- </UL>
- <P>
-
- <B>Bug Fixes</B>
- <UL>
- <LI>Fixed many bugs that were reported from B3, especially the crashes critters.
- <LI>Mosaic no longer hangs when a CCI app initializes
- <LI>No more double cursors over the spinning globe
- <LI>Drag & Drop local files from the file manager works correctly.
- <LI>Stand alone mode inline images display properly.
- <LI>Cache Manager "Fast Image Caching" works with "Check Modification Date
- From Server".
- <LI>Various News bugs were addressed.
- <LI>multiple redirection URLs are properly handled.
- </UL>
-
-
-
- <A NAME="globe"><HR></A>
- <DL>
- <DT><B>Global History</B>
- <DD>Mosaic will maintain a global history of visited Web sites, Gopher sites, Ftp sites,
- Newsgroups, etc. Mosaic's global history will save the anchor information to any
- Internet asset and present this information visually by changing the color of the
- previously visited anchors. The anchor color settings are user configurable and the default settings
- are:
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DT><B>Blue</B>
- <DD>Unvisited anchors.
- <DT><B>Red</B>
- <DD>Visited anchors of files that are <B>not</B> in your disk cache.
- <DT><B>Green</B>
- <DD>Visited anchors of files that are in your disk cache.
- </DL>
-
- </P>
- Mosaic offers you the option to set an expiration date for the visited anchors.
- Mosaic also offers you the ability to age the color of an anchor from the visited
- color to the unvisited color as frequency of the anchor visit approaches expiration.
- For example, if you have a visited anchor (Red) and the "Expire
- Visited Anchors 30 days" feature is selected, then
- the color of the anchor will start to change toward the unvisited anchor
- color (Blue) as the expiration date approaches.
-
- When the thirty day expiration date is met, Mosaic will remove the URL from
- the global history list and the anchor will assume the unvisited anchor color(Blue).
- The default setting for the expiration is thirty days and it is user configurable.
-
- <P>
- Configuration options for "Anchors" can be found in the
- <A NAME="Anchors"> Options, Preferences... Anchors</A>
- menu. A brief description of each available option is listed in the table below:
-
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Options, Preferences..., Anchors</H4></CAPTION>
- <TR><TH>Preference Options</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Miscellaneous</TH></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Change Cursor Over Anchor</TD><TD>Changes the standard arrow cursor
- to a hand with a pointing finger when the cursor is over an anchor.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Underlined</TD><TD>Underlines each anchor in the HTML document for users
- that have black and white monitors.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Show URL in Status Bar</TD><TD>Check if you want the URL of an anchor
- to appear in the status bar when the cursor is over that anchor.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Visually Age Visited Anchors</TD><TD>Allows the anchors to age with time
- and revert back to an unvisited anchor color.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Expired Visited Anchors: XX (days)</TD><TD>Check and enter the number
- ,(XX), of days it should take to revert visited anchors back to unvisited anchor
- state.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Current Anchor Highlighting</TH></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Framed</TD><TD> Surrounds the current anchor with a solid frame.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Button</TD><TD> Gives the current anchor a 3D button effect.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Hatched</TD><TD> Surrounds the current anchor with a broken frame.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>None</TD><TD> Anchors will not be modified by a frame, button or hatched
- affect AND the <A HREF="#LRArrow">Left and Right Arrow function is disabled.</A>
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Red: Green: Blue:</TD><TD>Allows you to change the color of the frame
- border.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Change...</TD><TD>Opens a dialog box that will allow you to select the frame
- color from a color palette.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Unvisited Anchor Color</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Red: Green: Blue:</TD><TD> Displays the RGB color value for unvisited
- anchors. You can change the value of the color by changing the color
- number in the respective field or by selecting the "Change..." function. Change
- will open a dialog box that will allow you to select the anchor color from a color
- palette.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Visited Anchor Color</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Red: Green: Blue:</TD><TD> Displays the RGB color value for visited
- anchors. You can change the value of the color by changing the color
- number in the respective field or by selecting the "Change..." function. Change
- will open a dialog box that will allow you to select the anchor color from a color
- palette.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Clear</TD><TD>Clear will clear the global history or the list of all "Visited
- Anchors". Clear will not affect the cache or the "Cached Anchors" status.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Cached Anchor Color</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Red: Green: Blue:</TD><TD> Displays the RGB color value for anchors that
- point to files that are contained in the disk cache. You can change the value of
- the color by changing the color number in the respective field or by selecting
- the "Change..." function. Change will open a dialog box that will allow you to
- select the anchor color from a color palette.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>On</TD><TD>Enables Mosaic to the display the disk cached items using
- the assign anchor color.</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
-
- <A NAME="b4cache"><HR></A>
- <DL>
- <DT><B>Cache Management Improvements</B>
- <DL>
- <DT><B><I>Clear Cache on Exit</I></B>
- <DD> When selected, Mosaic will clear the contents of the disk cache everytime
- you exit the application. <B>NOTE:</B><I> If you have multiple Mosaic sessions
- open and exit a Mosaic session, the combined current cache will be cleared. </I>
-
- <DT><B><I>Check Modification Date has two new attributes</I></B>
- <DD><B><I>Once per session</I></B> - Mosaic will only check an object's
- modification date once for during a session. If you access that object again
- during a session and you've cached that object's MIME type, Mosaic will load
- that object from the cache.
-
- <DD><B><I>Always</I></B> - Mosaic will always check the Web server for a file
- modification date before the file is loaded from the disk cache.
- </DL>
- </DL>
-
- <A NAME="b4tags"><HR></A>
- <DL>
- <DT><B>New HTML 3.0 Tag Attributes</B>
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER>Paragraph & Header Tags</H4>
- <DD>NCSA Mosaic has implemented alignment attributes according to the <B>HTML 3.0
- Specification</B>. These attributes are associated with the Paragraph, <P> &
- </P>, and the various Header
- tags, <H1>, <H2>, <H3>, <H4>, <H5> and <H6>.
-
- </DL>
-
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><B>Alignment Attributes for Paragraph and Header Tags</B></CAPTION>
- <TR><TH>Tag/Attribute</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD NOWRAP><P ALIGN=LEFT> ... </P></TD><TD>All text with in the paragraph
- will be aligned to the left side of the page layout. This setting is equal to the
- default <P> tag.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD NOWRAP><P ALIGN=CENTER> ... </P></TD><TD>All text with in the paragraph will
- be aligned to the center of the page.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD NOWRAP><P ALIGN=RIGHT> ... </P></TD><TD>All text will be aligned to the
- right side of the page.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR></TR>
-
- <TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER><H? ALIGN= ><BR> ? = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6</TD><TD>
- The header tags have simular alignment attributes as the paragraph tag. <BR>
- ALIGN=LEFT <BR> ALIGN=CENTER <BR> ALIGN=RIGHT</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
- <P>
- <B>NOTE:</B> To account for the commonly used yet non-standard <CENTER>
- tag, Mosaic will change the default ALIGN=LEFT attribute of all paragraph and
- header tags to ALIGN=CENTER until a </CENTER> tag is read. Mosaic will
- also allow internally defined alignment attributes to take precedence over a
- wrapping CENTER tag. We would like to encourage all HTML authors to conform
- to the HTML3.0 way of centering HTML and no longer use the non-standard
- <CENTER> tag.
-
- <H4 ALIGN=CENTER>Image Tags</H4>
- Mosaic supports the HTML 3.0 HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes for the Image tag.
- The HEIGHT and WIDTH is measured in pixels.
- For example,
- <P ALIGN=CENTER>
- <IMG SRC="something.jpg" HEIGHT="100" WIDTH="300" ALT="some image">
- </P>
-
- <A NAME="b4URL"><HR></A>
- <DL>
- <DT><B>URL list box</B>
- <DD>The URL bar is now a list box. By selecting the arrow key to the right of
- the URL bar you can view the list of visited URLs in the order that they were
- visited.
- </DL>
-
- <A NAME="b4cci"><HR></A>
- <DL>
- <DT><B>New CCI function</B> - <B><I>DoActivate</I></B>
- <DD>DoActivate will force the Mosaic window to the foreground.
- </DL>
- <P>
-
-
- <A NAME="Beta3"><HR></A>
- <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Beta 3 Release Notes</H1>
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Bug fixes</H3>
- <HR>
- <B>No new features were added to Beta 3</B>
- <P>
- <B>Bug Fixes</B>
- <UL>
- <LI>Major memory usage Improvements
- <LI>Fixes to Mailto: problems with some mail servers
- <LI>Multiple Get now functions properly
- <LI>256 character URL limit fixed.
- </UL>
-
-
- <A NAME="Beta2"><HR></A>
- <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Beta 2 Release Notes</H1>
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Features, Enhancements, and Bug fixes</H3>
- <HR>
- <B>Features and Enhancements:</B>
-
- <UL>
- <LI><A HREF="#Audio">Options, Preferences, Audio </A> Menu
- <LI><A HREF="#Services">Options, Preferences, Services</A> Menu Additions
- <DL><DD>Telnet configuration section
- <DD>Append a sig file to a Newsgroup post or a Mail message.
- </DL>
- <LI><A HREF="#mmailto">Multiple mailto: supported</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#mget">Multiple get supported for ftp transfers</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#enhancement">Hotlist Manager Enhancement</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#loadto">"Load to disk" enhancement</A>
- </UL>
-
- <B>Bug Fixes</B>
- <UL>
- <LI>Memory and System Resource Improvements
- <LI>Horizontal scroll bar not appearing
- <LI>Winsock initialization problem fixed
- <LI>news: post crashes
- <LI>Removing focus from print preview caused a crash
- <LI>copy/paste inserts blank lines where it finds <P> tags.
- </UL>
-
-
- <A NAME="Audio"><HR></A>
- Mosaic has "NEW" audio capabilities. You can associate up to twenty-five Mosaic
- functions to any of the .wav audio files on your system.
-
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Options, Preferences..., Audio</H4></CAPTION>
- <TR ALIGN=CENTER><TH>Preference Options</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>You'll receive an audio tone when you associate
- a .wav sound file with one of the following functions.</TH></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Abort </TD><TD>Left mouse click on the Mosaic logo or hit the
- Esc key </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>About Box </TD><TD>Help, About Windows Mosaic... or the Question
- Mark in the Tool Bar </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Add to Hotlist </TD><TD>The Add to Hotlist icon in the toolbar or
- Open the Hotlist Manager (Navigate, Hotlist Manager) and select Edit,
- Add Curent at Selection Point </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Load Document </TD><TD>Select the green check next to the URL command
- line or Enter. </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Navigate Back </TD><TD>Select the left arrow icon from the toolbar or
- Navigate, Back. </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Cancel URL Bar</TD><TD>Select the red X next to the URL command line.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Copy </TD><TD>Select a range of text in a document and the Copy icon
- from the toolbar or Ctrl+C </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Done Loading </TD><TD>Audio notification when Mosaic has received and
- loaded the document into the document view window.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Find </TD><TD>Select the Find icon from the toolbar or Edit, Find
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Navigate Forward </TD><TD>Select the right arrow icon from the toolbar or
- Navigate, Forward </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>History </TD><TD>Select Navigate, History </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Home </TD><TD>Select the House icon from the toolbar or Navigate, Home
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Image Loaded </TD><TD>Audio notification when Mosaic loads an image
- into the document view window. </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Mail </TD><TD>Select the Mail icon from the toolbar, or use File, Send
- Email... or enter mailto: in the URL command line.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>News </TD><TD>Select the News icon from the toolbar, or use File,
- Newsgroups... or enter news: into the URL command line. </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Open </TD><TD>Select the Open URL icon from the toolbar, or by selecting
- File, Open URL... (Ctrl+O) or File, Open Local File... (Ctrl+L) </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Paste </TD><TD>Select the Paste icon from the toolbar or Edit, Paste
- (Ctrl+V). </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Preferences </TD><TD>When you select Options, Preferences... </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Presentation Mode </TD><TD>Select Options, Presentation Mode (Alt+P)
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Print </TD><TD>Select the Print icon from the toolbar or select
- Edit, Print... </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Print Preview </TD><TD>Select the print preview icon from the
- toolbar or Edit, Print Preview... </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Reload </TD><TD>Select the reload icon from the toolbar, Navigate,
- Reload, or R </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Save </TD><TD>Select the save icon from the toolbar or File, Save As...
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Shutdown </TD><TD>Double click on the upper left system menu or
- File, Exit </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Startup </TD><TD>Mosaic will greet you when you open the application.
- </TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
-
-
- <A NAME="Services"><HR></A>
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Options, Preferences..., Services</H4></CAPTION>
- <TR ALIGN=CENTER><TH>Preference Options</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2 ALIGN=CENTER><I>All descriptions are described with respect
- to the check boxes being checked.</I></TD></TR>
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Mail:</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Name:</TD><TD>Enter your name.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>E-mail Address:</TD><TD>Enter your email address</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>SMTP:</TD><TD>Enter the name of your mail server.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>FTP:</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Use Extended FTP</TD><TD>Extended FTP will associate file type icons and
- a file size for each file on the ftp server.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Display FTP Messages</TD><TD>A seperate dialog box that contains the
- messages generated by the ftp site.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>News</TH></TR>
- <TR><TH NOWRAP>Display Options:</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Thread View</TD><TD>View the top level messages without reply messages.
- </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Group View</TD><TD>View the top level message and the first level of replies.
- </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Tree View</TD><TD> View the top level and all replies in hierarchical format.
- (Replies to replies will be represented at different levels of the hierarchy.)</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR></TR>
- <TR><TD>Number of articles to load:</TD><TD>Enter the number of article headers you
- want Mosaic to retrieve from the news server. </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Number of articles to display:</TD><TD>Enter the number of articles you
- want Mosaic to display in the document view window.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>NNTP Server:</TD><TD>Enter the name of your default news server</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR><TD>.sig file:</TD><TD> Enter the name of the .txt file you want to
- use for your sig block. You can include your sig when you Post to a newsgroup
- or Mail a message.</TD></TR>
-
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><I>Subscriptions</I></TH></TR>
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2> Clicking this button opens a dialog box that offer you the
- following options: <B>Newsgroups</B></TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Search</TD><TD>Enter the name or prefix
- of a newsgroup. If this newsgroup is available in the list, Mosaic will display
- the newsgroup(s) after you stop typing.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Available</TD><TD>The field that maintains a list of newsgroups that
- available from your default news server.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Subscribed</TD><TD>The field that maintains a list of the newsgroups you
- want to read.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Subscribe</TD><TD>By selecting a newsgroup(s) from the list of "Available"
- newsgroups, subscribe will add the selected newsgroup(s) and move
- the group name(s) to the "Subscribed" field.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Unsubscribe</TD><TD>By selecting a newsgroup(s) from the "Subscribed" field,
- unsubscribe will remove the selected newsgroup(s) from the "Subscribed" field and
- add it to the "Available" field.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR></TR>
- <TR><TD>Update</TD><TD>Select to update your list of available newsgroups from your
- default server.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Select All</TD><TD>Select every entry in either the Subscribed field or
- the Available field. Which field is affected is dependent on which field
- you've selected with your mouse.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Unselect All</TD><TD>Unselects the URLs that have been selected.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>OK</TD><TD>Writes the information into Mosaic's initialization file and
- closes the window.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Cancel</TD><TD>Closes the window with out allowing the changes to take
- affect.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR></TR>
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Telnet</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Path name</TD><TD>Enter the path of your Telnet application. If your
- not sure about the specific path, use the Browse function to link to your
- Telnet application.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Host:port</TD><TD>Some Telnet applications use a colon to distinguish a
- specific port number. For example, if you enter "telnet://machine.name.com:23",
- Mosaic would have your telnet application open a telnet session on port 23.
- </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Host port</TD><TD>Same as above, with the exception that Mosaic would pass
- a space instead of a colon when you specify a port number.</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
-
- <A NAME="mmailto"><H5>Multiple mailto: supported</H5></A>
- You can send mail to multiple parties by entering the appropriate email
- address into the "To:" field seperated by a space or a coma.
-
- <A NAME="mget"><H5>mget (Multiple get) for ftp transfers</H5>
- You can transfer multiple files from an FTP site by holding the
- control key down and selecting the desired files with the left mouse
- button. Now click on the right mouse button and select "Get All" from
- the menu.
-
- <A NAME="enhancement"><H5>Hotlist Manager enhanced</H5>
- The "Add to:" field of the Hotlist Manager is the default target of the
- URL when you use "Add Current to Hotlist".
-
- <A NAME="loadto"><H5>"Load to disk" enhanced</H5>
- Load to disk was moved and renamed. You will now find the function
- "Save to Disk" as a right mouse button feature. You can also hold the
- shift key down and use the left mouse button to load a target file to your disk.
-
-
-
-
- <A NAME="Beta1"><HR></A>
- <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Beta 1 Release Notes</H1>
- <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Features, Enhancements, and Bug fixes</H3>
- <HR>
- <B>Features and Enhancements:</B>
-
- <OL>
- <LI><A HREF="#Preference">Options, Preferences... </A>
- <B>All</B> Mosaic configurable options are available from the following menus:
- <DL>
- <DD> <A HREF="#General">General</A>, <A HREF="#Viewers">Viewers</A>,
- <A HREF="#Services">Services</A>, <A HREF="#Proxy">Proxy</A>,
- <A HREF="#Tables">Tables</A>, <A HREF="#Anchors">Anchors</A>,
- <A HREF="#FontStyles">Font Styles</A>, <A HREF="#Caching">Caching</A>
- </DL>
-
- <LI><A HREF="#Hotlist">Hotlist Manager</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#JPEG">Inline JPEG Image Support</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Mouse">"New" Right Mouse Button Menu Options</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#News">News Reader Improvements</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Status">Status Bar Improvements</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Tool">Tool Bar Improvements</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Accelerate">New Accelerator Keys</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Mailto">Command line mailto:</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Copy">Copy and Paste from the Document view window</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#scresize">Scrolling and resizing the Mosaic window</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Interupt">Interupt for Windows NT</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Stand">Enter Stand Alone Mode (-s)</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#LRArrow">Left and Right arrow keys</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Splash">Mosaic's Splash Screen</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#+/-">+/- keys magnify all fonts on screen
- proportionally</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#MIME">Improved unknown file type handling</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#ALT">ALT information from IMG tags will be displayed.</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#Forms">Forms Enhancements
- <DL>
- <DD>Tab from one form field to another
- <DD>Selecting Enter on the last form field will submit the form
- </DL>
- <P>
- <LI>Comment cards
- </OL>
-
- <B>Bug Fixes</B>
- <UL>
- <LI>Resource and Memory Leaks
- <LI>various Interrupt bugs
- <LI>Menu Editor bugs (It got Nuked), it was replaced by a full featured,
- drag and drop <A HREF="#Hotlist">Hotlist Manager</A>.
- <LI>Find now functional
- <LI>file transfer invoked when clicking on ftp:// links
- <LI>Ampersands in URLs not parsed as entities
- <LI>And Many More... To many to remember or list....... We're starting with
- a clean slate. <B>;^)</B>
- </UL>
- <HR>
-
- <H3>Feature Descriptions</A></H3>
-
-
- <H3><A NAME="Preference">NCSA Mosaic Options, Preferences... Menus</A></H3>
- With the release of v2.0.0 Beta 1, you will no longer have a need to edit
- the "mosaic.ini" with an ascii editor. We have made all possible configurable
- items available from the following preference menus. <B>Please do not edit the
- mosaic.ini with an ascii editor, type errors could cause problems.</B>
-
-
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Buttons common to all Preference Menus</H4></CAPTION>
- <TR><TH>OK</TH><TD>OK will save your configuration changes to the
- mosaic.ini file and close the Preferences... window.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Cancel</TH><TD>Cancel will close the Preferences window without saving
- the changes to the mosaic.ini.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Apply Now</TH><TD>Apply Now applies all configuration changes to your
- current Mosaic session.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TH>Help</TH><TD>Help will eventually open up a HELP menu with entries for
- each of the preference items. It is currently not supported.</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
-
- <A NAME="General"><HR></A>
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Options, Preference..., General<H4></CAPTION>
- <TR ALIGN=CENTER><TH>Preference Options</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2 ALIGN=CENTER><I>All descriptions are described with respect
- to the check boxes being checked.</I></TD></TR>
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Toolbars at Startup</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Show Toolbar</TD><TD>Show the Toolbar Icons on startup.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD NOWRAP>Show Location Bar</TD><TD>Show the URL command line on startup.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Show Status Bar</TD><TD>Show the Status bar at the botton of the Mosaic
- window on startup.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Inline Images</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Display Inline Images</TD><TD>Display all Inline image within the HTML
- document.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>3D Borders</TD><TD>Displays a 3 dimensional border around each inline image.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Background Color</TD><TD>Selecting this button will open a dialog box that
- will allow you to select the background color of the document view window
- from a color palette.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Miscellaneous</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>3D Rules</TD><TD>Gives all horizontal rules, <HR>, a 3 dimensional
- appearance.</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR><TD>Round List Bullets</TD><TD>Inserts a round bullet in front of all List Items
- ,<LI>. With out a check in the the box, a dash would appear in front of each
- "List Item".
- </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Use Internal (8-bit) Sound</TD><TD>Use Mosaic's built-in .au sound driver.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Home Page</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Autoload</TD><TD>Autoload Home page upon startup</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2>Enter the URL of the document you want Mosaic to load
- as your home page when you select "Navigate, Home" or click on the "House" icon
- in the tool bar.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Initial Window Placement</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>X (Horiz) Pos:</TD><TD>The value of the horizontal screen coordinate of
- the left side of the Mosaic window.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Width:</TD><TD>The width of the Mosaic window in terms of screen pixels.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Y (Vert) Pos:</TD><TD>The value of the vertical screen coordinate of the
- top of the Mosaic window.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Height:</TD><TD>The height of the Mosaic window in terms of screen pixels.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Use Current Window Position</TD><TD>Saves the current size and location of
- the Mosaic window as the default size and location.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Display</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Display Text While Loading</TD><TD>Mosaic will display the documents text
- it's downloading the document. This function is useful for large HTML documents.
- Without the check, Mosaic will download the entire HTML document and then display
- the text. In either case, Mosaic will display the documents text before it starts
- retrieving the inline images from the network or disk cache.
-
- </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Display Images While Loading</TD><TD>Mosaic will display each inline image
- when it's downloaded from the network or retrieved from the cache. Without the
- check, Mosaic will display all of the inline images after it has received all
- of the images from the network or disk cache.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Disable Display While Loading</TD><TD>This function will disable the
- above two functions and Mosaic will display the entire document and it's inline
- images after the everything is downloaded from the network or retrieved from
- the disk cache.</TD></TR>
- </Table>
-
-
-
- <A NAME="Viewers"><HR></A>
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Options, Preference..., Viewers<H4></CAPTION>
- <TR ALIGN=CENTER><TH>Preference Options</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Associate MIME Type of:</TD><TD>This field controls the different
- MIME types and the information that is displayed for each MIME setting. Click on
- the right arrow button to view your current list of MIME types.
- <B>NOTE:</B> This and the following fields are editable and you should be
- cautious when editing these fields. If you are having problems with a MIME/Viewer
- configuration check the appropriate MIME type for type errors.
- <I><B> Editing the information in these fields WILL change your current viewer
- configuration.</B></I>
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Description of MIME Type: (Optional)</TD><TD>A discription of
- the MIME type.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>With This/These Extensions:</TD><TD>Enter the file extensions that are
- associated with the MIME type
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD NOWRAP>To this Application:</TD><TD>Enter the path and the executable name of
- the external viewer(s). Ensure the application is capable of handling the
- MIME type. We recommend you use the Browse... function to create this association.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD><B> Browse... </B></TD><TD>Browse opens a dialog box that allows you
- to view your directories and files using the standard Windows tree format.
- Find the appropriate application and select OK. Mosaic will then fill in the
- appropriate information in the "To this Application:" field.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD><B> Add </B></TD><TD>Select to add a new MIME Type and associated information
- to your MIME type list.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD><B> Remove </B></TD><TD>Select to delete the current MIME Type and all its
- associated information from your MIME type list.
- </TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
-
-
-
-
- <A NAME="Proxy"><HR></A>
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Options, Preferences..., Proxy</H4></CAPTION>
- <TR ALIGN=CENTER><TH>Preference Options</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD NOWRAP>HTTP Proxy Server:</TD>
- <TD ROWSPAN=4>Enter the name of the machine that is providing you with the
- proxy services. If the same machine is providing you with services for more
- than one protocol enter the name in each field. If you are not using proxy
- serivces for a listed protocol leave the field blank.</TD>
- </TR>
- <TR><TD NOWRAP>FTP Proxy Server:</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD NOWRAP>WAIS Proxy Server:</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD NOWRAP>Gopher Proxy Server:</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2>No Proxy List:</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2> The "No Proxy List:" allows you to define particular domains that
- will OR will not be effected by the proxy server. This is particularly useful for
- users who are behind a firewall. Use the Add, Mosaic allows the user to define which
- domain names will and will not require proxy services.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Add</TD><TD>Select to open a dialog box that allows you to enter an IP number or
- a domain name to the "No Proxy List:". (ie. ncsa.uiuc.edu)</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Remove</TD><TD>Removes the selected domain entry from the
- "No Proxy List:"</TD>
-
- <TR><TD>Proxy</TD><TD ROWSPAN=2> These buttons select the respective
- proxy status you want to associate with the selected domain.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>No Proxy</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
-
-
- <A NAME="Tables"><HR></A>
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Options, Preferences..., Tables</H4></CAPTION>
- <TR ALIGN=CENTER><TH>Preference Options</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2 ALIGN=CENTER><I>All descriptions are described with respect
- to the check boxes being checked.</I></TD></TR>
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Table Display Options</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>3D Tables</TD><TD> Allow your tables to appear within a 3D frame.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Ressessed Tables</TD><TD> Inverses the 3D affect.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Display Empty Cells</TD><TD>Display the empty cells instead of
- filling in the cell with the table frame.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Table Color Settings</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD NOWRAP>Red: Green: Blue:</TD><TD> The RGB color value of the table. You can
- change the color of the table frame by modifying the color values in this area.
- </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Change</TD><TD>Opens a dialog box so you can select the color of the
- table frame from a color palette.</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
-
-
-
-
- <A NAME="FontStyles"><HR></A>
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Options, Preferences..., Font Styles</H4></CAPTION>
- <TR ALIGN=CENTER><TH>Preference Options</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2>This feature allows you to define different font groups that can
- be use by Mosaic. and you
- are not limited to a maximum number of groups.
-
- <TR><TD>Font Groups:</TD><TD>Displays the name of the font groups that are
- available to Mosaic. To view the contents of the group double click on the
- group name. </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>+ Default</TD><TD>The default font group</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>New</TD><TD>Opens a dialog box that allows you to enter the name
- of your "New" font group. After you enter a name in the field, select the
- check to create a new group or the X" to cancel the function. When you create
- a font group it's initial settings reflect the current settings in the
- default group. </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Remove</TD><TD>Remove selected font group</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Edit</TD><TD><DL><DT>Edit the name of the font group.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Change...</TD><TD>Opens a dialog box that will allow you to change the
- font type, size, or color of the selected font. </TD></TR>
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Current Font Group:</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Current Font Group:</TD><TD>Select the font group that Mosaic will use
- upon start-up.</TD></TR>
- <TR><A NAME="+/-"></A>
- <TD>Magnification Units:</TD><TD>The multiplicative value, 1 - 5, that will
- be used when you magnify the screen fonts using the + or - keys.</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
- <A NAME="Caching"><HR></A>
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION><H4>Options, Preferences..., Caching</H4></CAPTION>
- <TR ALIGN=CENTER><TH>Preference Options</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Memory Cache</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Number of documents kept in memory:</TD><TD>The number of documents that
- are maintained in cache during a Mosaic session. This cache is a volitile and
- its contentscache.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Disk Cache</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Location:</TD><TD>Define the drive:\directory\path\ to a directory that
- will be used to maintain the non-volitile disk cache. (ie. c:\Mosaic\Cache\)
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Size(KB):</TD><TD>The number of KBs you want to allocate to the disk cache.
- (1M = 1024KB)</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Enabled</TD><TD>Cache is enabled when the box is checked.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Check Modification Date From Server</TD>
- <TD> Using this feature, Mosaic ensures you are viewing the most current version
- of the document, image, etc.... Mosaic does this by query the server for the header
- of the document. This header contains the file's size and
- modification dates. If this information have changed, Mosaic will download
- and display the latest version of the document. If the information did not change,
- Mosaic will load the document from the disk cache.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Fast Image Caching</TD><TD>Mosaic converts cached inline images into
- a .bmp format. This format increases the pagination speed of the
- inline image when it's loaded from the disk cache.
- </TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TD NOWRAP>Never purge home page</TD><TD>Checking box will always your home page from
- the disk cache.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Advanced Cache Manager</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2>The advanced cache manager allows you to manage and view the
- contents of your disk cache. </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Hits, Size, File, URL Field</TD><TD>This field allow you to view the contents
- of the disk cache. Hits represents the number of times the file has been hit from
- the cache. Size represents the size of the file. File represents the actual name
- of the file and URL represents the origional URL to the file. Below this
- field is statistical information relative to the contents of the cache. Listed
- are the total number of files, the actual size of the disk cache(KB), and information
- about the cache has been hit. The "Cache Hit Percentage" shows you the percentage of
- times you have accessed the cache during the life of the cache and during you present
- Mosaic session. </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Cache the following mime types?</TD><TD>A list of the current MIME types you
- have listed in your viewers section and the cache status for each MIME type.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Yes</TD><TD>Select a MIME type from the above field and select "Yes" to add
- these type of files to your disk cache.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>No</TD><TD>Select a MIME type and select "No" to exclude these type of
- files from the disk cache.</TD></TR>
- <TR></TR>
-
- <TR><TD>Load URL</TD><TD>Select a URL from the cache management window and select
- this button to load the file.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Delete</TD><TD>Deletes the selected item from the cache.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Never Purge</TD><TD>Select an item in the cache and select this button if
- you never want to purge this file from the cache. These selected item are
- marked by an * next to the "Hits" number.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Can Purge</TD><TD>Select a "Never Purge" item from the cache management
- windows and click this button if you want to remove this file from the "Never Purge"
- list. If you use the "Check Modification Date From Server" option, Mosaic will
- update the file the next time you visit the web site.
-
- <TR><TD>Clear All</TD><TD>Remove the contents of the disk cache. If you have
- "Never Purge" items you will be asked if you want to delete these items.</TD></TR>
-
- <TR><TH COLSPAN=2>Sort By:</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>File</TD><TD>Sort the cache management window by the file type</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Server</TD><TD>Sort the files with respect to the WWW Server from which you
- retrieved.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Size</TD><TD>Sort by file size.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Hits</TD><TD>Sort by the number of times the file is hit from the cache.
- The first element in the list has the highest hit percentage.</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="Hotlist">The Hotlist Manager</A></H4>
-
- <DL>
- <DT><B>What is the Hotlist Manager?</B>
- <DD>The Mosaic Hotlist Manager allows the user to manage the elements within
- your hotlist files (user-defined menus). You can configure hotlists and
- organize the appearance of hotlists in the Hotlist Manager window. The Hotlist
- Manager replaced the Menu Editor and the need to store the URLs in the
- mosaic.ini file. The Hotlist Manager also removes the limit to the number of menu
- items Mosaic could display using Menu Editor. The only restriction you have with
- the Hotlist Manager is when you put your hotlist into the menu bar, you are
- limited by your screen size or a max of 100 hotlists with 100 items.
- <P>
- <DD>A hotlist file contains a list of elements that represent
- "Document Titles" and their associated "URLs", plain URLs, links to ftp sites, gopher
- sites or even a link that will launch a Telnet application to your favorite remote
- site. These elements of a hotlist can be arranged
- in many formats from a single list to a list of sub-lists. The specific arrangement
- of these hotlists are completly user configurable and can be done by using
- the Hotlist Manager's drag-and-drop feature. Mosaic hotlist files are identified
- using the <B>.hot</B> file extension and you can have any number of .hot files,
- however, only one hotlist file can be open at any given time.
- <P>
-
- <P>
- <DT><B>To open the Hotlist Manager</B>
- <DD>Select Navigate, Hotlist Manager and the Hotlist Manager
- dialog box appears.<BR>
- <P>
-
- <DT><B>To open a hotlist file</B>
- <DD>From the Hotlist Manager's File menu, choose Open. A standard windows "Open"
- dialog box appears and you can go to the appropriate directory and select a file.
- Click OK and Mosaic will load this file as your current hotlist. <I>NOTE: Mosaic
- is capable of reading mosaic.ini files and NCSA Mosaic generated .hot files. If
- you have an html based hotlist, you can view it in the Mosaic window and select the
- File, Import function to save it as a .hot file. </I>
-
- <P>
- <DT><B>To save a hotlist file</B>
- <DD>From the Hotlist Manager's File menu, choose Save or Save As.
- <P>
- <B>Save</B>, saves the current hotlist file to its current file name in it's current
- format.
- <P>
- <B>Save As</B>, opens the Save Hotlist dialog box and allow you to enter.
- Select the appropriate directory from the directory list. Then enter the file
- name in the File Name box. Note: a hotlist file can be extended with either
- the .hot or .htm file format.
- <P>
- <DD><B><I>Note: Please take the time to convert your current hotlists that are stored
- in your mosaic.ini as a seperate .hot file. This can be easily achieved by using the
- Hotlist Manager, open the mosaic.ini and following the steps outlined above.
- </I></B>
- <P>
-
- <DT><B>To import other hotlist(s) to the current hotlist file</B>
- <DD>From the Hotlist Manager's File menu, choose Import. This will create a new
- top-level hotlist with a title which is the same as the current document.
-
- Each hyperlink anchor in this document is automatically listed as an entry in the
- new hotlist. The order and hierarchy of these anchors is also preserved.
-
- <P>
- <DT><B>To insert a new hotlist</B>
-
- In the hotlist display box, Highlight a hotlist or a hotlist item.
- From Edit, select Insert New Hotlist.
- An Edit Item dialog box appears. In the Title box, enter the name of the hotlist,
- click on OK.
- This will create a hotlist above the current highlighted item.
-
- <P>
-
- <DT><B>To insert a new hotlist item</B>
- In the hotlist display box, highlight a menu or a menu item
- From Edit, select Insert New Item.
- An Edit Item dialog box apperas. In the Title and URL box, enter the title and
- URL of the document to be added, click on OK.
- This will create a menu item above the current highlighted item.
- <p>
-
- <DT><B>To delete a hotlist or hotlist item</B>
- <DD>First highlight the menu or item you want to delete in the hotlist window.
- Then from the Edit menu, select Delete. In the case of removing a menu, a dialog box
- appears asking whether you actually want to delete it. When you select to delete
- a menu item, Mosaic will delete it immediately without asking for confirmation.
-
- <P>
- <DT><B>To edit a hotlist or hotlist item</B>
- <DD>First highlight the menu or menu item you want to edit. Then from the Edit menu,
- choose Edit. The Edit Item window appears, allowing you to edit the highlighted
- menu name and/or the item's document name and URL.
- <P>
-
-
-
- <DT><B>To add the current document to a hotlist</B>
- <DD>From the Edit menu, choose Add Current to Hotlist. This will add the current
- document's name and URL to the menu highlighted in the hotlist box.
- <P>
-
- <DT><B>To display hotlists from one root on menu bar</B>
- <DD>From the Options menu, select On Menu Bar and One Root.
- Mosaic will display all the hotlists under the Hotlists menu.
- <P>
-
- <DT><B>To display each hotlist seperately on menu bar</B>
- <DD>From the Options menu, select On Menu Bar and make sure the One Root option
- is unselected. This allows Mosaic to display each hotlist as a different menu.
-
- <P>
- <DT><B>To change font in the hotlist display box</B>
- <DD>From the Options menu, select Change Font, A Font dialog box appears.
- Select the desired font, font style, and size, click on OK.
- <P>
-
-
- <HR>
- <H4><A NAME="JPEG">Inline JPEG</A></H4>
- Mosaic supports the JPEG image type as an inline image type. The other supported
- inline image types are .gif and .xbm.
- <HR>
-
- <H4><A NAME="Mouse">"New" Right Mouse Button Menu Options</A></H4>
-
- <OL>
- <LI>Changing the font size on the fly..... You can change the attributes of any
- font on the screen by placing the mouse cursor over the word, clicking on the
- right mouse button and selecting "Change 'font name' Font". Mosaic will open
- up a font dialog box and give you the ability to change the size or the color
- of a particular font.
- <LI><A HREF="#NewsMouse">News Reader Options</A>
- </OL>
- <HR>
- <H4><A NAME="News">News Reader Improvements</A></H4>
- <B>Options, News Subscriptions...</B><BR>
- The "NEW" Mosaic news interface allows you to interact with a newsgroup
- as if you were using a dedicated news reader. Mosaic uses the message
- ID number to maintain a record of the messages you have read. Mosaic also
- allows the display of messages and follow-up messages(threads) in a
- hierarchical format. Mosaic gives you the ability to subscribe
- to newsgroups, post messages to newsgroups, follow-up posted message
- and reply to the author of a news message.
- <P>
- By default Mosaic uses the news server you've defined in the <B>Options,
- Preferences..., Services </B> page as the source of newsgroups and messages.
- You can access news groups in one of three ways.
- <P>
-
- <B>First</B> - use the <B> Options, News Subscriptions </B> function to select
- desired newsgroups. After you've subscribed to a group enter the following
- URL in the command line and enter.
- <DL>
- <DD><B>news:</B>
- </DL>
- Mosaic will query the news server for the current number of articles of each of
- the newsgroups you have are subscribed.
- <P>
-
- <B>Second</B> - You can access any newsgroup directly by entering a URL in the
- command line using the following syntax:
- <DL>
- <DD><B>news:name.of.newsgroup</B> (ie. news:comp.infosystems.www.users)
- </DL>
- <P>
-
- <B>Third</B> - If you have access to another news server and you want to read
- a particular newsgroup that is available only from that news server.
- Mosaic will allow you to access this server by using the following URL
- syntax.
- <DL>
- <DD><B>nntp://name.of.server/name.of.newsgroup</B>
- </DL>
- <P>
- <B>NOTE: <I>news:newsgroup.name = nntp://your.default.news.server/newsgroup.name</I></B>
-
-
- <A NAME="NewsMouse"><HR></A><TABLE BORDER>
- <CAPTION>Right Mouse Button Options Available While Reading News</CAPTION>
- <TR ALIGN=CENTER><TH>Condition (When?)</TH><TH> Button Option</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
-
- <TR><TH>Over a News Anchor</TH></TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Follow-up to Article</B></TD>
- <TD>Reply to the article in public forum back to the newsgroup.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Reply to Author</B></TD>
- <TD>Reply only to the author of the article. </TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Create Internet Shortcut</B></TD>
- <TD>Save a shortcut link to the present news article.</TD>
- </TR>
-
-
- <TR><TH>Within a News Article</TH></TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Follow-up to Article</B></TD>
- <TD>Reply to the article in public forum back to the newsgroup.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Reply to Author</B></TD>
- <TD>Reply only to the author of the article. </TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Next Article</B></TD>
- <TD> Go to the next article in the newsgroup.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Previous Article</B></TD>
- <TD>Go to the next article in the newsgroup.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Next Thread</B></TD>
- <TD> Go to the next thread. (A thread is a reply to the main article.)</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Previous Thread</B></TD>
- <TD>Go to the previous thread within the parent article.</TD>
- </TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Create Internet Shortcut</B></TD>
- <TD>Save a shortcut link to the present news article.</TD>
- </TR>
-
-
- <TR><TH>Elsewhere within a News index </TH></TR>
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Post to Newsgroup</B></TD>
- <TD>Post an article to a newsgroup.</TD>
- </TR>
-
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Next Newsgroup</B></TD>
- <TD>Go to the next subscribed newsgroup.</TD>
- </TR>
-
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Previous Newsgroup</B></TD>
- <TD>Go to the previous subscribed newsgroup.</TD>
- </TR>
-
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Create Internet Shortcut</B></TD>
- <TD>Create a short cut to the current page.</TD>
- </TR>
-
-
- <TR>
- <TD></TD>
- <TD NOWRAP><B>Spawn Mosaic from Current Page</B></TD>
- <TD> Open another Mosaic Window with the current URL as the first document.</TD>
- </TR>
- </TABLE>
- <HR>
-
- <H4><A NAME="Status">Status Bar Improvements</A></H4>
- The "optional" status bar located at the bottom of the Mosaic screen is divided into
- four areas. The message bar, is located on the left side of the status bar.
- The status display area consist of an OLE indicator, a download indicator,
- an inline image indicator and the inline images number indicator. The right most
- status display window contains the progress indicator.
- <P>
- <DL>
- <DT><B>The Text Status Display</B>
- <DD>This area displays URL information, and status messages that are
- generated by Mosaic.
- <DT><B>The Graphic Status Display</B>
- <DL>
- <P>
- <DT><B>OLE Indicator</B>
- <DD>The OLE indicator will display an OLE icon when Mosaic is sending or receiving
- data from an external CCI application.
- <P>
- <DT><B>The Wait/Download Indicator</B>
- <DD>Displays an hour glass icon when Mosaic is waiting for a response from the network and
- displays a page icon when Mosaic is receiving data from the network.
- <P>
- <DT><B>The Inline Image Indicator</B>
- <DD>Indicates if there are inline images in the current document. The indicator
- remains in the window until the image(s) are paginated in the document.
- <P>
- <DT><B>Inline Image Number Indicator</B>
- <DD>Displays the number of inline images that are contained
- within the document being downloaded. This number is decremented every time an
- image is received.
- <P>
- </DL>
- <DT><B>The Progress Indicator</B>
- <DD>This status bar give you a visual representation about the current download
- in progress.
- </DL>
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="Tool">Tool Bar Improvements</A></H4>
- The Tool bar has been reordered and additional functions available.
- <TABLE>
- <TR><TD>File Folder Icon </TD><TD>Open URL</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Disk Icon</TD><TD>Save As...</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Printer Icon</TD><TD>Print current page</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Print preview Icon</TD><TD>Preview the current page as it will appear on the printer
- </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Duel Page Icon</TD><TD>Copy </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Clipboard/Page Icon</TD><TD>Paste</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Left Arrow Icon</TD><TD>Back one step in history</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Right Arrow Icon</TD><TD>Forward </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Circular Arrow Icon</TD><TD>Reload Current Page</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>House Icon</TD><TD>Go to Home Page</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Page/Binoculars Icon</TD><TD>Find </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>+ Burning Page Icon</TD><TD>Add Current to Hotlist</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Rolled Newspaper Icon</TD><TD>Open News Browser</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Mail Slot Icon</TD><TD>Mailto window</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Question Mark Icon</TD><TD>About Mosaic</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
-
-
-
- <HR>
- <H4><A NAME="Accelerate">New Accelerator Keys</A></H4>
- <TABLE BORDER>
- <TR><TH>Key Combination</TH><TH>Description</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>Esc</TD><TD>Interupt</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD COLSPAN=2>The following Ctrl-? key combinations put the focus into the
- URL command line with the appropriate prefix. </TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Ctrl-h</TD><TD>http://</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Ctrl-f</TD><TD>ftp://</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Ctrl-g</TD><TD>gopher://</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Ctrl-n</TD><TD>news:</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Ctrl-m</TD><TD>mailto:</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>Ctrl-u</TD><TD>Puts fucus in URL command line without changing the
- current URL.</TD></TR>
- </TABLE>
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="Mailto">Command line mailto:</A></H4>
- You can email from Mosaic using the "<B>mailto:</B>"
- (Ctrl-m) command in the URL command line. Mailto allow you to create an email that contains
- your message, the current URL, and even a copy of the document in text format.
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="Copy">Copy and Paste from the Document view window</A></H4>
- You can copy and paste information from the Mosaic window. To copy a file:
- highlight the desired text, select the copy icon from the Mosaic Tool bar or
- use Ctlr-c to force a copy. To paste the data select the desired window and
- either use the Ctrl-v key command or use the defined Paste command under the
- applications Edit menu.
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="scresize">Scrolling and resizing the Mosaic window</A></H4>
- Mosaic will allow you to resize the Mosaic screen or scroll through a document
- while it is downloading and paginating a document.
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="Interupt">Interupt for Windows NT</A></H4>
- The Interupt is supported on Windows NT. To interupt a download either left mouse
- click on the Mosaic icon or hit the Esc key.
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="Stand">Enter Stand Alone Mode using the -s command line option</A></H4>
- You can envoke Mosaic in standalone mode by using the -s switch on the command
- line. Either add this switch to the properties field of your Mosaic icon.
- <P>
- from Program Manager, click on the Mosaic program icon, then from
- File menu, select Properties, a Program Item Properties dialog box appears.
- In the Command Line box, type the option "-s" after the path and mosaic.exe.<BR>
- For example: C:\Mosaic\mosaic.exe -s.
-
- <P>
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="LRArrow">Left and Right arrow keys allow you to follow anchors</A></H4>
- You can follow all anchors with the left and right cursor keys. To activate this
- option select Options, Preferences..., Anchors menu and select an "Anchor Highlighting"
- option. When you select the right arrow key, the anchor will shift down to the
- next anchor in the document. If you select the left arrow key you will move to
- the previous anchor in the document.
- <HR>
-
-
- <A NAME="Splash"><H4>Splash Screen</H4></A>
- Mosaic displays a splash screen with version information each time you envoke
- Mosaic.
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="+/-">+/- Magnify all Fonts</A></H4>
- You can increase the size of all fonts in your Mosaic window by selecting the
- "+" key enlarges the current font, and the "-" key, reduces the font.
- Note: The size of the magnification units</A> is defined in the
- Options, Preferences..., Font Styles menu. Change the value of the magnification in
- the "Magnification Units:" section. The magnification can have a value
- between 1-5.
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="MIME">Improved unknown file type handling</A></H4>
- When you find a file that contains an undefined MIME type or extension, Mosaic
- will open a dialog box and offer you one of three options.
- <P>
- <OL>
- <LI>Save to Disk.
- <LI>Add Viewer to this MIME type
- <LI>Cancel
- </OL>
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="ALT">ALT information in IMG tags</A></H4>
- When "Display Inline Image" feature is off, Mosaic will display the information that
- is defined in the ALT section of the tag.
- For example:
- <P>
- In this image tag: <IMG SRC="mosaic.gif" ALT="NCSA Mosaic">, will display
- the text "NCSA Mosaic".
-
-
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="Forms">Forms Enhancements</A></H4>
-
- <DL>
- <DD>Mosaic will allow you to Tab from one form field to another.
- <DD>If you press "Enter" on the last form field, Mosaic will submit the form.
- <DD>The "form font" is user definable from Options, Preferences..., Font Styles menu.
- Double click on the desired font group and select the "Form Control Font". Mosaic
- will open up a standard font change dialog box.
- </DL>
- <HR>
-
-
- <H4><A NAME="Comment">Comment card</A></H4>
- We are very interested in hearing what you have to say about Mosaic. After the
- fifth time you envoke the program, Mosaic will prompt you with a Comment dialog
- box that we would like you to fill out. This provides some direct feed back about
- our product and we are interested in hearing what you say. We will use this
- information to guide the direction of our development for future releases
- of Mosaic. The information used in this form will not be used for any other
- purpose.
- <HR>
-
-
-
-
- See our <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/WinMosaic/HomePage.html">Home Page</A>
- for more information about Mosaic, viewers, other features, bugs, HTML Editors, etc....
- <H3>Enjoy! </H3>
-
- <HR>
- <ADDRESS><A HREF="mailto:mosaic-w@ncsa.uiuc.edu">mosaic-w@ncsa.uiuc.edu</A><BR>
- <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu">National Center for Supercomputing Applications</A><BR>
- <A HREF="http://www.uiuc.edu">University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign</A> <BR></ADDRESS>
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