Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu! garfield.ncsa.uiuc.edu!user From: k...@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kim Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh 1.0 Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm Date: 11 Nov 1993 02:15:00 GMT Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Lines: 56 Message-ID: < KIMS-101193201459@GARFIELD.NCSA.UIUC.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: garfield.ncsa.uiuc.edu NCSA is proud to Announce the 1.0 release of NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh. 1.0 was released Wednesday, November 10, 1993 at 8:00 pm (central time). NCSA Mosaic is an enabling technology that allows the user to easily access networked information from all over the world with the click of a button. The Internet is the primary source of networked information to the University and scientific communities. The use of these network facilities is growing by leaps and bounds. For example, Internet traffic is doubling every eight to ten months. With more and more people using the Internet the amount of information available is literally exploding. Services to access this information are rapidly being created. A few examples of the services currently available are; Gopher, WAIS, World Wide Web, FTP, Usenet News, Telnet, and Archie. Without such services highly important information could easily slip by unnoticed. NCSA Mosaic is designed to provide transparent, seamless access to nearly all of these information sources and services. In addition it gives the user a mechanism to retrieve and display a wide variety of data types. These types include text, images, movies, animations, sound and scientific data. NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh can be download via anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu directory Mac/Mosaic. The bugs and improvements of 1.0 release: For a complete list of features check the Macintosh home page. New Features.......... tn3270 support Loading of binhex files in gopher Support for HR and ALT HTML tags Access authorization: test case http://www1.cern.ch/AAtest/Welcome.html Full HTTP1.0 support, including redirection: test case http://www.bsdi.com/test-cases/HTTP/ Gopher tries to guess image types by file extension now. Bugs............... QuickTimes is still a problem for some users. It appears to timeout before receiving the entire file. Better interrupt support. All known interrupt hang-ups have been fixed. Telnet icons for Gopher are in. CSO gopher searches work, and do not spin forever. Annotations can be edited/deleted again. Temporary files are back in System Folder. Please send any questions, comments, bugs or suggestions to mosaic-...@ncsa.uiuc.edu NCSA Mosaic for the Mac Development Team. Aleks Totic, Tom Redman, Kim Stephenson & Mike McCool University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications 152 CAB 605 E. Springfield Champaign, IL 61820