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*****************************************************
NCSA Mosaic 2.0.1
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The final version of NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh 2.0.1 was
released Monday, October 2, 1995.
We will continue to keep the comprehensive Known Bugs page as up-
to-date as possible . To help us do this, please email us with any
problems you find that are not related to those listed on the known
bugs page. Use the Mail Developers feature from the File menu, or
email to mosaic-mac@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
Note: Please check that the email address is correct before sending
mail via the Mail Developers option. Thanks! Otherwise we will be
unable to respond to you if the email address is incorrect.
*****************************************************
HOW TO GET NCSA MOSAIC
*****************************************************
NCSA Mosaic is available via anonymous ftp. Please enter
'anonymous' as the name and your complete email address as the
password.
<URL:ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac/Mosaic/>
The NCSA ftp server is being overloaded with requests for the Mosaic
software. Because of this, you may get an error message. Please wait
a while and try again when the server may not be as busy. As an
alternative, you may wish to try one of the following unofficial
mirror sites. (these may be out-of-date or incorrect)
USA:
site: sunsite.unc.edu
location: /pub/packages/infosystems/WWW (all versions)
Australia:
site: miriworld.its.unimelb.edu.au
location: /pub/clients/ (all versions)
Europe:
site: ftp.luth.se
location: /pub/infosystems/www/ncsa (all versions)
site: ftp.sunet.se
location: /pub/mac/Mosaic (mac version)
/pub/pc/windows/www/Mosaic/ (pc version)
/pub/www/Mosaic (X version)
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DECOMPRESSING THE ARCHIVE
*****************************************************
To UnStuff & UnBinHex NCSA Mosaic we recommend that you use
StuffIt Expander. The expander is available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
in the /Mac/Mosaic/Helpers/ directory.
<URL:ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac/Mosaic/Helpers/>
Important Note
Some people are having problems starting up MacMosaic. If MacMosaic
crashes before the splash screen is displayed, it is possible that there
is a problem with your system. We now know that when the Apple Shared
Library Manager(ASLM) is deinstalled improperly, when any application asks
the MacOS if ASLM is present, the system will crash. To deinstall the ASLM
run the ASLM installer. Hold the option key down and the install button
should change to a deinstall button. Click the deinstall button.
It is possible that this problem may exist with other MacOS
extensions that require an installer. If MacMosaic won't start
up on your machine, we recommend that you reinstall the system.
*****************************************************
Current Known Problems
*****************************************************
Sometimes menus are not updated properly when editing
custom menus.
There are still pagination problems in tables.
Does not work with Type Reunion.
Sometimes the menu bar gets messed up when you start up
the PowerMac version. (This seems to be a MacOS
problem. I have seen it in other applications
besides Mosaic.)
There are still some pagination bugs that have been
fixed in version 3.0 (coming soon!).
Incorrect table HTML will sometimes crash MacMosaic.
<Option> tag with out enclosing form will
crash MacMosaic. (Fixed in 2.0.2.)
*****************************************************
Fixes for Final 2.0.1 release
*****************************************************
Fixed some table rendering bugs.
Fixed bug with URLs and forms, where the "?" was
being removed.
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Fixes for Final 2.0.0 release
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Fixed history menu and <title> strings that are
too big.
Fixed many pagination and rendering bugs.
Fixed helper application dialog.
Removed "Save as...HTML".
Fixed URL window so there is only one.
More background image fixes.
Fixed Copy/Paste bugs.
Fixed JPEG caching bug.
<head> tags are now closed and <body> tags are
automatically opened when appropriate.
Tried to fix some preferences file conversion
problems.
Removed memory leaks. Still some lurking...
Lots of other minor bug fixes.
*****************************************************
Fixes For Beta 14
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Background images and colors, and colored text have
been added to this version of Mosaic. You can turn
these options on and off in the Styles/Images
dialog box.
Fixed selection problems with backgrounds.
Fixed initialization problems.
Fixed strike thru.
Fixed more pagination problems.
Fixed Boyer-Moore searching text searching algorithm.
Fixed URL encoding.
Fixed "file:" string encodings.
Fixed lots of other annoying bugs for your viewing pleasure.
*****************************************************
Fixes For Beta 13
*****************************************************
Cache files on 68k and powerPC are now the same.
More problems with backgound colors have been fixed
and backgound images are now supported.
Large tables are now handled more efficiently.
Entities within default content for TEXTAREA is now
handled.
Some control redrawing problems within forms have been
fixed.
Some crashing bugs fixed.
*****************************************************
Fixes For Beta 12
*****************************************************
More selection problems fixed.
Parser problem with entities fixed.
Can now have up to five history popup menus at a time.
"View Source" always avaliable now. If the file is
cached then you will be asked if you want to
reload the page.
Fixed various crashing bugs with interuption of a down load.
Non blank space now converted to SP on copy.
Images in tables when downloaded now cause proper repagination.
TT is now called TeleType in the styles dialog.
Code, Sample, etc, no longer inherit from TT. Each can
have its own even spaced font style.
Fixed occasional crash with submitting forms.
Images loads in forms work.
Fixed more background color problems with forms and lists.
Sped up text searching by several orders of magnitude
with Boyer-Moore searching algorithm.
Fixed AppleEvent bug. Did not bring forward an already
running helper application.
Fixed memory failure problem.
Fixed internal tag stack overflow problem.
Fixed Mail-To Developers bug with not being able to quit.
Fixed selection redraw problem when moving between
applications.
Unknown MIME types are now downloaded to a seperate file.
Interupting the downloading into files no longer crashes.
*****************************************************
Fixes For Beta 11
*****************************************************
In certain cases, some of the text would not be
displayed.
A problem with margins has been fixed.
Plaintext works properly.
More table bug fixes.
The apply button in the Styles dialog works.
Problems changing line justification in the
styles dialog has also been fixed.
*****************************************************
Fixes For Beta 10
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You can now create a new Hotlist.
Find works.
A crashing bug when clicking IsMaps multiple times
is fixed.
In very rare occasions, plain text files would
contain mark-up.
You can now create a new hotlist. That was broken.
Some tables bugs have been fixed.
Image align left and right work much better.
*****************************************************
Fixes For Beta 9
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Sometimes, pagination would get caught in a
loop and never return until memory was
completely exhausted.
Things were sometimes center that should not have
been.
Tables look a little better.
More selection bugs have been fixed.
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Fixes For Beta 8
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FTP crash fixed.
A bug that would occasionally cause text to not
be displayed was fixed.
Netscape bookmarks can now be imported into the
hotlist scheme in a more elegant fashion.
Align property is now supported on the P tag.
XMP tag now works.
Occasionally an out of memory error was detected
when it didn't actually exist.
Table spacing is fixed.
Selection bugs have been fixed.
Image Align left and right are much better.
*****************************************************
Fixes For Beta 7
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Anchor naming is correct now.
GURL is supported, but still seems to not work
properly in some cases.
Problems with with the CENTER tag and IMG align
left and align right are fixed.
PREformated text has been fixed, as has PLAINTEXT.
Find is two orders of magnitude faster. But occasionally
the selection get messed up. Usually when the
application has to scroll to show the new found
selection. Just force the window to redraw when
this occurs.
Annotations have been fixed. Various bugs have
been removed and reworked.
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Fixes For Beta 6
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HTML Parser is much faster.
Named anchor jumps in docs on local machines now works
properly.
Mailto URLs now work better, and more consistently.
The status icons in the upper left of the window now
reflect much more information. When a connection
is being established, the globe wires display
marching arrows, the yellow ball is displayed a
a distance down the wire porportional to the
percentage of the load that is completed, and
the icon indicating pagination shows the portion
of the doc that is completely paginated.
View source now saves properly.
The CENTER tag is supported.
Additional HTML 3.0 support was added:
Image align=left and align=right are supported.
BIG and SMALL tags are supported.
Carriage returns are mapped to carriage return/line
feed in multiline form fields.
A potential crashing bug that could occur when
checking the mod date of a cached document
is fixed.
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Fixes For Beta 5
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GIF image offset display problem is fixed.
Align attributes for HEAD tags is support.
Anchors that are not terminated properly are handled
gracefully.
Visited link aging now works properly. If you visit a
link once, the display color migrates toward the
color of unvisited links.
ALL temp files now get deleted, as well as hanging
cache files.
In certain instances, forms entry fields would not be
displayed.
Some problems with multiple submissions of one form
have been fixed.
The history pop up is now redrawn properly.
A problem with multiple windows that would cause
strangeness was fixed.
*****************************************************
Fixes For Beta 4
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The ALIGN attribute is now supported for heads.
Forms response encoding problems have been fixed.
More backgound color problems have been fixed.
Abort provides better response than befor. A hanging bug
with aborting loads has also been fixed.
Ridiculously long alt strings will now work properly,
within reason.
*****************************************************
Release Notes For Beta 3
*****************************************************
Mail developers had a major bug in it that could cause a crash
when you tryed to send the mail.
The problem with entities (& escaped HTML) in the 68k version is
fixed.
A problem with table pagination that would cause crashes has been
fixed.
*****************************************************
Fixes For Beta 2
*****************************************************
If you have used NCSA Mosaic for the Mac 2.0.0 BETA 1, and you started
with a new preferences file at that point, you don't need to trash your
preferences again.
Mosaic would crash sometimes if you moved off a page while it was
still paginating, and then returned to it.
Extracting tables from cache now works.
Loading XBMs under certain circumstances previously could
cause problems. It's fixed.
Some probems with backgound colors have been fixed.
It was previously possible to submit a form several times before the
first submission was processed. This would cause a crash.
Another problem with interrupting downloads has been fixed.
A problem with HTML entitys has been fixed.
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Fixes For Beta 1
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SAVE THE EXISTING PREFERENCES FILE BEFORE RUNNING THIS VERSION OF NCSA
MOSAIC. THERE IS AN EXISTING BUG THAT WILL CORRUPT THE PREFERENCES FILE
IF THIS IS NOT DONE. REMOVE THE EXISTING COPY OF THE MOSAIC PREFERENCES
FROM THE PREFERENCES FOLDER AND LAUNCH NCSA MOSAIC TO HAVE IT CREATE A
NEW COPY
Mailto: support
NCSA Mosaic now supports the mailto: tag. A mail server for the
user must be set in the "Preferences", under "Gates" before this
feature is accessible.
Local disk cache
A local disk caching feature has been implemented. NCSA Mosaic will
now retain copies of recently accessed documents to decrease the
amount of time spent accessing the network. There is also a "Cache"
section in the "Preferences...". Caching preferences should be set
soon after starting this version of NCSA Mosaic. If this is not
done, NCSA Mosaic will default to the System Folder as its cache
directory resulting in a large number of cache files being saved
to the System Folder.
Inline images
Inline JPEG support
Adornments
Inline images now have a option of being adorned (a border
around the images)
Alt tags
Inline images that are not Auto-Loaded will display the alt
tag for the image next to the placeholder if one exists.
The above two features can be disabled through the "Styles..."
dialog box in the "Images" section.
Menu items have changed
"Mail to Developers..." moved under the balloon help menu
"Home" under "Navigate" has a new command key (command - \)
"Hotlist" under "Navigate" has a new command key (command - h)
"Use HTTP 0.9" has been removed from the "Options" menu
Fixed
Many performance enhancements
"Add This Document" from the "Options" menu no longer causes crashes
"Mail Developers..." should be working for the most part. There are
still a few known problems (see known problems)
Numerous pagination problems have been fixed.
Tables bugs have been fixed.
Printing problems have been fixed.
Many bugs which caused crashes in the previous versions are fixed
*****************************************************
FULL FEATURE LIST for 2.0.0
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Forms
Tables
Inline JPEGs
Local caching
Strikethru, Superscript, and Subscript support
Improved Error Reporting
Improved Pagination
User Configurable Color Background (default color is now gray)
New Hotlist Interface (access from the Navigate menu)
Custom Menus
Quick Keys (more command key sequences added)
Firewall Proxy support (including SOCKS support and standard
gateway support)
URL entries (users can now make URL entries in the URL field at the
top of the screen when Show URLs is on. Hitting return activates the
link.)
ODOC event support, and Applescript Open URL support with the
option to load to disk
Reload button