Real-Writer: TAKADA Toshihiro (高田敏弘) <takada@seraph.NTT.JP>
Real-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1993 04:25:45 +0900
Subject: [infotalk,00020] NCSA Mosaic for X 0.9 available.
Message-Id: <9303061925.AA13954@seraph.ntt.jp>

たかだです。

最近お気に入りの xmosaic の新版がアナウンスされました。

絵、音、そしてMPEGも引っ張ってこれます。それぞれxvやらmpeg_playやらを別
に起動するだけですが。

以下参考まで、

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher,comp.infosystems.wais,comp.infosystems,alt.hypertext
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Subject: NCSA Mosaic for X 0.9 available.
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 22:59:45 GMT
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NCSA is developing a new X/Motif-based networked information systems
browser called Mosaic.  Beta version 0.9, including full source code
and binaries (for SunOS 4.x, SGI IRIX 4.x, AIX 3.2, and DEC Ultrix),
is at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Web/xmosaic.

Mosaic provides a consistent and easy-to-use hypertext-based interface
into a wide variety of information sources, including Gopher, WAIS,
World Wide Web, NNTP/Usenet news, Techinfo, Texinfo, FTP, local
filesystems, telnet, tn3270, and others.

A list of changes made from version 0.8 to version 0.9 follows:

 o Some multimedia support. Yew asked for it...
    o GIF, JPEG, TIFF, audio, AIFF, DVI, MPEG, MIME, XWD,
      PostScript automatically recognized.
    o Pipe to external viewers (with viewers set via X resource
      mechanism).
    o Also retrieve images, audio over Gopher.
    o But not over HTTP (unless you're running a modified HTTP
      server).
    o Inlined MIME/multimedia support will be coming down the
      road, so this is all just a temporary hack.
 o Transparent handling of compressed (.Z) files.
 o Hotlist now *always* saved after modification.
 o Fixed occasional infinite loop/crash for some 8-bit documents.
 o Fixed various parsing bugs associated with using <xmp> instead of
   <plaintext> internally.
 o Links to specific anchors now work properly.
 o Fixed bug with failure in repeated accesses via FTP.
 o Fixed bug with spurious ^M's in Gopher anchors.
 o Fixed bug opening local file while visiting remote file.
 o Fixed display bug with punctuation falling off end of line.
 o Fixed problem with BadAlloc crashes on some servers.
 o Annotation text features.
    o Choice of annotation links in header or footer.
    o Automatic (& fast) updating of annotations on every document
      view.
    o New defaultAuthorName resource to override use of normal
      fullname.
    o Annotations now always use machine's full name.
 o Menubar item 'Delete This Annotation'.
 o Audio annotations (SGI only, so far).
 o Fixed BadWindow bug for annotation window on DECstations.
 o All plaintext files can now be annotated.
 o Fixed occasional problem with size of hotlist/history windows.
 o Added sample app-defaults files to distribution.
 o New resources for multimedia stuff:
    o gifViewerCommand (default 'xv')
    o jpegViewerCommand (default 'xv')
    o tiffViewerCommand (default 'xv')
    o audioPlayerCommand (default 'showaudio' from Metamail
      distribution)
    o aiffPlayerCommand (default 'sfplay' -- SGI specific)
    o dviViewerCommand (default 'xdvi')
    o mpegViewerCommand (default 'mpeg_play')
    o mimeViewerCommand (default 'xterm -e metamail')
    o xwdViewerCommand (default 'xwud -in')
    o rgbViewerCommand (default 'ipaste' -- SGI specific)
    o postscriptViewerCommand
 o Deleted annotations now have all corresponding disk files removed.
 o Mosaic is smarter about the <plaintext> HTML token at the head of
   plaintext files.
 o Lots of little cleanups and bug fixes.

We're targeting a 1.0 release around the middle to end of March, so
quick feedback and bug reports will be GREATLY appreciated.  (Please
note that the online documentation is not quite up to date, as we are
still busy writing code.)

Finally, thanks *again* to everyone who's been contributing comments
and bug reports -- keep 'em coming!

Cheers,
Marc

--
Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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