Introduction to NCSA Mosaic for X 2.0

This document is intended to serve as an introduction to NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System version 2.0. It covers new features in version 2.0, and changes from version 1.2, that will affect most users of Mosaic.

Note that many of the following links providing further information require a direct Internet connection to work.

For more information on any of the details in this document, please feel free to send mail to mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu (or, alternately, to the World Wide Web mailing list www-talk@info.cern.ch or the Usenet newsgroup comp.infosystems.www).

Status Of Documentation For 2.0

We are currently writing real Mosaic 2.0 documentation; it isn't yet available, for which we apologize. In the meantime, this document should at least help current users of Mosaic 1.2 upgrade to 2.0 without too much pain.

Potential Problems

This section is an up-front listing of how Mosaic 2.0 is different than Mosaic 1.2 in ways that may cause apparent trouble to existing 1.2 users.

New Features In Mosaic 2.0

OK, this is the fun part. What will Mosaic 2.0 do for you?

More Information

You may wish to look over an exhaustive list of technical changes that took place during the development of Mosaic version 2.0.

To take full advantage of Mosaic 2.0's capabilities, you should run a very smart HTTP/1.0 server. We recommend NCSA httpd. If you prefer a Perl-based server, try Plexus. Other options are CERN httpd and GN.

Experimental tutorials on various Mosaic-related topics are now available. Comments welcome (send 'em to marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu).


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