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 * Internal Release only. * 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 * Internal Release only. * 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 * Released Tuesday, June 13, 1995. * 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 * Internal Release only. * 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 * Internal Release only. * 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 * Released Monday, May 8, 1995. * 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. Fixes For Beta 8 * Internal Release only. * 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 * Released Thursday, April 27, 1995. * 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. Fixes For Beta 6 * Internal Release only. * 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. Fixes For Beta 5 * Released Friday, April 7, 1995. * 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 * Internal Release only. * 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. Fixes For Beta 3 * Released Thursday, March 16, 1995. * 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 * Internal Release only. * 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. Fixes For Beta 1 * Released Tuesday, March 7, 1995. * 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. Alpha Releases * Alpha 18 - Alpha 26 were internal releases only. * Alpha 17 was released Friday, November 11, 1994. * Alpha 9 - Alpha 16 were internal releases only. * Alpha 8 was released Friday, September 16, 1994. * Alpha 7 was an internal release only. * Alpha 6 was released Tuesday, July 26, 1994. * Alpha 4 - Alpha 5 were internal releases only. * Alpha 3 was released Tuesday, July 12, 1994. * Alpha 2 was released Wednesday, June 22, 1994. * Alpha 1 was released Friday, June 10, 1994. Full Feature List for 2.0 * 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 left up uup right search comment ______________________________________________________________________ [LINK]-[Alliance] Contact mosaic-m@ncsa.uiuc.edu with questions or comments regarding this page. 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Home - NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications - Search Alliance - NCSA - User_Info - Access - MyLinks 2.0 Final Release Notes This page contains the list of features and bugs for the 2.0 release of NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh. The last 2.0 version was 2.0.1, and it was released Monday, October 2, 1995. The Known Bugs page contains all the bugs found in the 2.0 versions of NCSA Mosaic. No new versions of Mosaic 2.0 will be made available. This means that there will be no bug fixes for problems found in the 2.0.1 version of Mosaic. 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. *