NCSA Mosaic Features List

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Features List

• Support for accessing documents and data through Gopher, WAIS, World Wide Web, FTP, NNTP/Usenet news, Techinfo, TeXinfo, Telnet, tn3270, Archie, Finger, Hyper-G, HyTelnet, X.500, Whois, NCSA DMF, local files, and other sources.
• Friendly X/Motif user interface.
• Color and monochrome default X resource settings.
• Multiple independent toplevel windows.
• History list per window (both 'where you've been' and 'where you can go'); history list can be mailed to another user as a hypertext document.
• Global history with previously visited locations visually distinct; global history is persistent across sessions.
• Hotlist/bookmark capability -- keep list of interesting documents, add/remove items, list is persistent across sessions; hotlist can be mailed to another user as a hypertext document.
• Personal annotations with GUI annotation entry dialog; annotations can later be edited or deleted, and hyperlinks to existing annotations are inlined into subsequent accesses of an annotated document. (Any document from any server via any access method can be annotated.)
• Audio (voice) annotations with GUI for controlling recording process (SGI, Sun, and HP only).
• Support for recognizing and handling GIF, JPEG, TIFF, audio, AIFF, DVI, MPEG, MIME, XWD, RGB, PostScript documents and forking off appropriate viewers.
• Transparent and automatic uncompression of compressed (.Z) and gzip'd (.z) files.
• Inlined images in formatted (HTML) text: X bitmaps and GIF images can be included anywhere inside a document, and can act as hyperlink anchors. Image files themselves can be located anywhere on the network.
• Binary transfer mode, for pulling down arbitrary binary files and saving them to local disk without viewing them.
• In-document search capability with caseless and backward options.
• Fully 8-bit clean for formatted and plain text.
• Options for new window per document (aka TurboGopher interface) -- always, or via middle mouse button.
• On-the-fly font and hyperlink style selection.
• Many common document and data source choices accessible via menubar.
• Keyword search capability (for WAIS, Gopher, Archie, etc.).
• Cut and paste formatted text into other X windows.
• Smart handling of documents too big for single X window -- virtual document pages via inlined hypertext.
• Save/mail/print documents in several formats.
• Online hypertext help and FAQ list.
• Effortless developer feedback mechanism.
• No config or resource file installation required; single self-contained executable.
• Extensively tested and maintained.
• Extremely customizable.
• Integrated with NCSA Collage and NCSA DTM to broadcast documents into real-time networked workgroup collaboration sessions.

New Features For 1.1

• Edit titles of entries in hotlist.
• Mosaic processes can be "remote controlled" by other processes via signals.
• Support for printing/saving/mailing documents as PostScript.
• Image map support.
• CSO phonebook support.
• Group annotation support (?).