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NCSA X Mosaic 0.5 released, by Marc Andreessen (1993)

2 points by mcenedella 7y ago

mcenedella 7y ago
"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."
mcenedella 7y ago
"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. ???"