NCSA Mosaic Features List
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Note
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This list is up to date for version 2.0 of NCSA Mosaic. 

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