Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.infosystems Path: sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net! spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de! math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!dxcern!news From: t...@info.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee) Subject: New "XMosaic" World-Wide Web browser from NCSA Message-ID: <1993Jan29.122243.26454@dxcern.cern.ch> Sender: n...@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Reply-To: t...@info.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 12:22:43 GMT Lines: 106 An exciting new World-Wide Web browser has come out, written by Marc Andreessen of NCSA. Using X/Motif, and full of good features, it installs very easily, as the binary is completely self-sufficient. The release note is appended to this message. The sources and binaries are available by anonymous FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu as described below, and also from info.cern.ch as files /pub/www/src/xmosaic-0.5.tar.Z The sources /pub/www/bin/decstation/xmosaic_0.5.Z binary (ultrix) /pub/www/bin/sun4/xmosaic_0.5.Z binary (sun4) /pub/www/bin/snake/xmosaic_0.5.Z binary (hp 700) /pub/www/bin/sgi/xmosaic_0.5.Z binary (sgi) /pub/www/bin/rs6000/xmosaic_0.5.Z binary (ibm rs6000) - Tim Berners-Lee WWW project CERN t...@info.cern.ch _________________________________________________________________ Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 07:21:17 -0800 From: m...@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) By the power vested in me by nobody in particular, alpha/beta version 0.5 of NCSA's Motif-based networked information systems and World Wide Web browser, X Mosaic, is hereby released: file://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/xmosaic/xmosaic-0.5.tar.Z This release of X 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). Binaries for these platforms are available on ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Web/xmosaic/binaries-0.5. More binaries will be supplied as I am able to find other Motif-configured platforms to use (DEC MIPS probably within the next half hour). Although this is alpha/beta software, I'm looking more for feedback on design and functionality than bug reports right now -- down the road the bulk of the program will be rewritten in C++ anyway, so don't take the current code too seriously. But bug reports are welcome too. New releases will probably come out about every 7-14 days until 1.0 arrives. A list of current and future capabilities of X Mosaic follows this message. Cheers, Marc -- Marc Andreessen Software Development Group National Center for Supercomputing Applications m...@ncsa.uiuc.edu Current capabilities .................. Motif interface. Multiple toplevel windows. Save/mail/print document (plaintext or HTML). Document source- and URL-viewing windows. History list per window with GUI interface. Option for new window per document (TurboGopher interface). On-the-fly font selection. Many common document choices accessible via menubar. Keyword search capability. Hotlist capability -- keep list of interesting documents, add/remove items, list is persistent across sessions. Smart handling of documents too big for single X window -- virtual document pages via inlined hypertext. Interruptable at any time via SIGUSR1 signal. No config or resource file installation required; self-contained executable. Hypertext help. Integration with NCSA Collage and NCSA DTM to broadcast documents into real-time networked workgroup collaboration sessions. Stable! :-) Future capabilities ................. Multimedia/MIME. Asynchronous collaboration functionality. (annotations, references, revision control). Hypermedia interface to scientific data. Visual hyperweb/hierarchy layout and navigation. 3D/immersive interface. ???