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1.0 Final Release Notes

   This page contains the list of features and bugs for the 1.0 release
   of NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh. The last 1.0 version was 1.0.3, and
   it was released Thursday, 27 January, 1994.
   
1.0.3 Release Features:

   Bug Fixes
     * There were several bugs that caused serious CRASHES. These have
       been fixed.
     * Reloading during an image load has been fixed.
     * Preferences bug has been fixed.
     * Styles bug has been fixed.
     * FTP would fail if there was a character with ASCII > 128 in
       response string.
     * When load of image failed for some reasons (memory, bad gif), the
       file would not be deleted. This is now done, resulting in a
       cleaner Temp folder.
     * XBMs didn't read the last line causing some XBMS to not read
       correctly.
       
   New Features
     * Improved Speed
     * Non-anonymous ftp works now. The syntax is
       file://user:password@host/
     * Anonymous FTP is now more robust.
       
   Known Problems and Bugs
     * 1.0.2 used to corrupt your "Preferences" file. If 1.0.3 gives you
       a message such as "Can't convert gif to image", this is probably
       because of a corrupted preferences file. Try deleting the old one.
     * The handling of HTML entities has changed to be SGML compliant.
       Entities are only recognized if they are followed by ; or white
       space. For example
         1. &less-than is rendered as &less-than.
         2. &ampless-than is rendered as &ampless-than(invalid)
     * Interrupting loading can cause MacMosaic to hang for about a
       minute. Mosaic will recover.
     * Sometimes, Mosaic will not find an external viewer. This will
       never occur if the viewer is running, so you can work around this
       problem.
     * Launching Mosaic with Preference file causes a crash.
     * Formatting bugs:
          + <P> tag might result in too much spacing. Use <BR> instead.
          + Definition lists (<DL>) are not formatted properly.
     * Styles dialog box might not display all fonts if you are using
       ATM. It will not allow you to set arbitrary font size.
     * QuickTime movies might load only halfway, and then drop the
       connection, resulting in the unreadable file
     * Saving document as HTML does not work right for lists.
     * Incompatibility with A/UX. Possible cause: compilation with
       MacTCP2.0 headers.
       
1.0.2 Release Features:

   Bug Fixes
     * Printing
     * Formatting of text has changed. BLOCKQUOTE is now handled
       properly. The default fonts are Times and Monaco.
     * Bug that caused 1.0.1 to be "Unable to access document" after 8
       downloads on machines running pre-2.04 MacTCP is fixed.
     * Non-color Quickdraw machines will not crash upon loading images.
     * After using "Mail to Developers", network access will still be
       enabled.
     * Anchors that contain named references will be marked as visited.
     * Telnet launch file is stored in the same folder as temporary
       files.
     * FTP directories parsing is improved, but not perfect yet.
     * Multiple clicks on home page will not result in a crash.
       
   New Features
     * Ability to specify where temporary files are stored. The chosen
       folder can be any folder specified by user. Apple's "Temporary
       Folder" which is invisible to users can be set from "Options"
       menu.
     * Clicking on the spinning icon will interrupt loading.
     * Several changes of default helper applications:
     * Sound Machine is now a default ulaw sound player.
     * A new document type (application/macbinary), and extension (.bin)
       are recognized by default. This is the MacBinary type, commonly
       used to transfer Macintosh files. The default decoder application
       for MacBinary is MacCompress. For these changes to take place
       automatically, you will need to delete your original preferences
       file.
     * Default WAIS gateway used to process URL's of type "WAIS:" is now
       user configurable through "Preferences" dialog box.
       
1.0.1 Release Features:

   Bug Fixes
     * Mosaic would not start up unless a printer was chosen.
     * &ampquot HTML entity is now recognized.
     * Redirected URLs (in HTTP 1.0 protocol) work for all protocols.
     * Memory problems have been fixed. Mosaic will run well in 2
       megabytes.
     * Nested numbered lists are now always numbered correctly.
     * Text files are single-spaced.
     * All the files (even the last one) are listed in the FTP
       directories.
       
   Improvements
     * Speed. Mosaic is significantly faster now, especially if you have
       fast network.
     * Domain names are cached if you are using MacTCP 2.0+, resulting in
       faster downloads
     * "Open URL..." menu item is active even if there are no documents
       open.
     * HTTP 0.9 loading option. Because of incompatibilities between
       protocols this option has been added. If you are having problems
       with HTTP 0.9 server, switch this option on before loading
       documents from it. An example of this is
       http://slacvm.slac.stanford.edu:5080/FIND/spires.
     * Images stored in the cache are loaded automatically, even if
       "Auto-load images" option is off.
     * Inline images will be loaded to disk if "Load to disk" option is
       on.
     * The cache can be flushed from the menu.
     * Images are dithered on machines without color Quickdraw.
       
1.0 Release Features:

   Bug Fixes
     * Better interrupt support.
     * All known interrupt hang-ups have been fixed.
     * Telnet icons for Gopher are in.
     * CSO gopher searches work, and do not spin forever.
     * Annotations can be edited/deleted again.
     * Temporary files are back in System Folder.
       
   New Features
     * tn3270 support
     * Loading of binhex files in gopher
     * Support for HR and ALT HTML tags
     * Access authorization: test case
       http://www1.cern.ch/AAtest/Welcome.html Full HTTP1.0 support,
       including redirection: test case
       http://www.bsdi.com/test-cases/HTTP/
     * Gopher tries to guess image types by file extension now.
       
Beta 6 Release Features:

   Warning: The upgrade to HTTP 1.0 servers has introduced a couple of
   new bugs. They are:
     * If loading fails, the user will not be notified in most cases.
     * All the temp files are ending up in the Mosaic folder.
     * Occasionally, an image will not be loaded automatically. Just
       reload it manually.
       
   Bug Fixes
     * HTTP 1.0 support.
     * Icons in ftp and gopher directories.
     * Better file typing for gopher, now images and sounds are used to
       denote file types.
     * Phonebook support
     * FTP protocol works without crashing, and does not leave any open
       sockets.
     * When "Save file" dialog box appears, and Mosaic is in the
       background, it will no longer crash. Instead it will notify the
       user that it needs attention.
     * Load-to-disk works in all conditions.
     * Many more diagnostic loading messages.
     * Style Dialog bugs:
          + Too many fonts caused NCSA Mosaic to crash
          + Size scrolling view now dims when HTML tags prohibiting size
            changes are selected.
          + Canceling Color change no longer displays the ugly green.
          + Changing a style no longer sets all the anchor colors to
            black.
     * The Status Icon (NCSA 'S')in the upper left corner has improved.
     * CMD-A (Add This Document to Hotlist) is now CMD-D.
     * NCSA Mosaic no longer automatically opens a new window each time
       the user selects a document from a menu item. It only opens the
       new window for Help Menu items found in the Balloon Help Menu or
       if the user holds down the option key while clicking on the link.
       
   New Features
     * Help Menu:
          + Help documents are now in the Balloon Help Menu.
          + Help menu has been removed.
          + Other documents from the Help menu are now in the Navigate
            Menu.
          + Mail To Developers has been moved to the File Menu.
     * CMD-R key added for Reload.
     * Jumps to relative links within a document no longer requires a
       reload.
     * Window resizes to screen upon opening.
     * Remove Temp Files option has been added to the Options Menu. This
       allows the user to purge NCSA Mosaic's temporary files while the
       application is still running.
       
Beta 5 Release Features:

   Upgrade warnings: Personal Annotations might be lost after this
   upgrade due to change of format of the LOG file. If you would like to
   keep your personal annotations, change the space after each URL in the
   LOG file to 'not equal' character (opt =).
     * Caching.. Mosaic will use all of the available memory to cache
       documents.
     * No MacTCP is required. Without TCP, you will be able to open local
       documents only
     * Status box shows what URL that will Mosaic jump to.
     * Control key for toggling binary transfer mode.
     * Menu option to reload current document.
     * Fixed bug that caused repeated searches to append extra keywords.
     * ISMAP works (really).
     * Interrupt of loading through Cmd-. works during connect. The keys
       do not have to be held down any more.
     * Annotations can be annotated.
     * Many previously inaccessible gopher holes now work.
     * Bug that caused a crash during image load is fixed.
     * "Application not found" bug has been eradicate (we hope).
     * Preferences are saved immediately.
       
Beta 4 Release Features:

     * Fixed the bug which prevented B3 from launching properly.
       
Beta 3 Release Features:

     * Ability to create a new hotlist
     * Additional options for viewer setup. Now you can specify if Mosaic
       should ask user for file name, and should the application be
       launched automatically. The whole external viewer interface has
       been redone, and includes a new mechanism for external application
       launching.
     * If home page entry is blank, Mosaic will start up with an empty
       document (nothing will be loaded)
     * Image mapping works
     * A status box has been added to display information during a
       document transfer.
       
Beta 2 Release Features:

     * Mail-to-developers option has been cleaned up from various bugs.
       If you would like a response to your bug reports, please enter
       your email address in Preferences. Mail-to-developers
       automatically reports your system configuration.
     * Annotations both text and audio work properly.
     * Setting the application for document types works. New option of
       defining custom document types has been added. This feature will
       be documented on-line soon.
     * URLs of type rlogin:user@host work now. The title of telnet window
       will give you the user name.
     * Preformatted text is not forcibly wrapped at 80 characters.
     * Text Styles for the hotlinks are properly modified by the Style
       Dialog.
       
Beta 1 Release Features:

     * Mail to developers.
     * New look & feel.
     * More informative status display icon.
     * Full old Mac compatibility.
     * Customizable external viewers
     * Image map support (ISMAP)
     * Custom styles.
     * Saving documents in HTML format.
     * Annotations private/group text/audio.
     * Many more preferences.
     * Simple AE support.
     * Colored anchors to indicate "previously explored".
     * Better failure handling when MacTCP is not available.
       
Alpha2 release features

     * ISO-Latin support.
     * Option to load next document to file. This stores the file on disk
       rather than displaying in the viewer.
     * All temporary files (those whose name has not been specified by
       user) are deleted.
     * Recognizes more file extensions. I was trying to make it fully
       user-customizable by this release, but did not succeed.
     * Back and forward command are working.
     * Better error handling for unrecognized file types.
       
Alpha release features:

     * Support for accessing documents and data through World Wide Web,
       Gopher, WAIS, FTP, NNTP/Usenet news, Techinfo, TeXinfo, Telnet,
       tn3270 NOT, Archie, Finger, Hyper-G, HyTelnet, X.500, Whois, local
       files, and other sources.
     * Multiple independent top level windows.
     * History list per window.
     * Editable hotlist.
     * Support for recognizing and handling GIF, JPEG, AU, AIFF, MPEG,
       QuickTime, TIFF, Zip, Pict, documents and forking off appropriate
       external viewers.
     * Inlined images in formatted (HTML) text: X bitmaps, GIF and Pict
       images can be included anywhere inside a document, and can act as
       hyperlink anchors. Image files themselves can be located anywhere
       on the network.
     * In-document find capability with caseless and backward options.
     * Cloning and creation of new window on loading a new document.
     * Keyword search capability (for WAIS, Gopher, Archie, etc.).
     * Copy and paste conform to Mac guidelines, including the type style
       information.
     * Interruptible loading through cmd-.
     * Background loading/repagination.
     * Switchable automatic/manual image loading for optimal performance
       over slow networks.
     * Printing, true WYSIWYG :)
     * Opening of local files.
       
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