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NCSA Mosaic Features List
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This list is up to date for version 2.5 of NCSA Mosaic.
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o Support for accessing documents, images, audio, video, animations, and data
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through World Wide Web, Gopher, WAIS, FTP, NNTP/Usenet news, telnet,
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tn3270, and local files; and via gateways, Techinfo, TeXinfo, Archie, CSO
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qi/ph, relational databases, and other sources.
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o Friendly X/Motif user interface.
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o Color and monochrome default X resource settings.
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o Multiple independent document viewing windows.
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o Completely interruptible network input/output, with full status indication
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during network operations.
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o Support for interactive fill-out forms inside documents, to enable powerful
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database and search engine front-ends. Fill-out forms can contain text entry
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areas (single- or multi-line), option buttons, radio buttons, option menus,
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scrolled lists, and image maps. Fill-out form elements are instantiated as
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Motif widgets.
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o Support for standard World Wide Web authentication scheme, providing
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security about equivalent to telnet's username/password scheme.
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o Customizable encryption hooks to allow external PEM or PGP encryption to
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be used to request and receive encrypted documents.
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o Support for encrypted submission of forms.
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o Support for first time encryption of all http communication.
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o Extensive HTTP/1.0 support, including the ability to allow a remote
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server to
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return URL redirections rather than documents for transparent forwarding of
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information pointers.
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o Ability to pass any or all URL access methods to a proxy gateway to simulate
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direct network connection for those behind firewalls.
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o Direct access to WAIS databases, including support for binary files and
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multiformat responses.
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o Built-in support for recognizing and handling GIF, JPEG, TIFF, audio, AIFF,
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DVI, MPEG, MIME, XWD, RGB, HDF, PostScript files and forking off
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appropriate viewers.
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o Full customizability of recognized formats, external viewers, and file
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extensions.
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o Ability to fire off arbitrary client-side shell scripts in response to
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hyperlink
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activations via format/viewer customization options.
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o Ability to natively view data inside HDF and netCDF scientific data files,
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with powerful hypermedia interface to explore internal structure of data
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files.
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o Inlined images in formatted (HTML) text: X bitmaps and GIF images can be
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included anywhere inside a document, and can act as hyperlink anchors. Image
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files themselves can be located anywhere on the network. Images can act as
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maps, so clicking on them sends coordinates of click to remote server.
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o Automatic dithering of inlined images on monochrome displays.
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o Support of GIF89 transparent background in inlined images.
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o Flexible inlined-image caching with customizable image cache size.
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o Delayed image loading mode, to avoid automatic loading of all images in
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accessed documents for users with slow network connections.
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o Visited document history list per window.
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o Global history with previously visited locations visually distinct; global
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history is persistent across sessions.
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o Hotlist/bookmark capability -- keep list of interesting documents,
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add/remove/rename items, list is persistent across sessions. Now stored
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in nested HTML.
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o Personal annotations with GUI annotation entry dialog; annotations can later
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be edited or deleted, and hyperlinks to existing annotations are inlined
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into subsequent accesses of an annotated document. (Any document from any
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server via any access method can be annotated.)
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o Audio (voice) annotations with GUI for controlling recording process (SGI,
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SGI, and HP only).
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o Transparent and automatic uncompression of compressed (.Z) and gzip'd (.z or
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.gz) files (over FTP, HTTP0, HTTP/1.0, local files, and Gopher).
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o "Load to local disk" mode, for pulling down arbitrary binary files and
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saving them to local disk without viewing them.
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o In-document search capability.
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o Fully 8-bit clean for formatted and plain text.
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o On-the-fly font and hyperlink style selection.
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o Hardcoded menu entries for popular network starting points, including the
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NCSA Internet Resources Meta-Index.
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o Keyword search capability (for WAIS, Gopher, Archie, etc.).
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o Cut and paste formatted text into other X windows.
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o Ability to display arbitrarily long documents.
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o Save/mail/print documents in several formats, including formatted ASCII
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text and PostScript.
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o Online hypertext help and FAQ list.
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o No config or resource file installation required; self-contained
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executable.
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o Extremely customizable via compile-time definitions, X resources, and
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standard configuration file formats (including mailcap files for
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format/viewer customization).
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o Can be controlled by signals to allow use as a full-featured help or
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information presentation subsystems by existing applications.
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o Integrated with NCSA Collage and NCSA DTM to broadcast documents into
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real-time networked workgroup collaboration sessions.
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o It's PURIFY'D!!!
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o Common Client Interface (CCI) support to allow external applications
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to communicate with Mosaic via TCP/IP.
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o Kiosk mode
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o Editor Hook
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