MOSAIC, WEB_TOOLS, The Mosaic Web Browser

VMS Mosaic V3.8-1, 21-NOV-2004

VMS Mosaic is a GUI web browser.  It supports HTML V4.0 (including
tables and frames), animated GIFs, cookies, secure connections, etc.
It does not support Java, JavaScript or style sheets.  A C compiler
is required to build it.

VMS Mosaic has been generated and tested on VAXes running OpenVMS
5.4 thru 7.3, on Alpha systems using OpenVMS V1.5 thru 7.3-2, and
on IA64 systems running OpenVMS V8.1 thru E8.2.  The systems have
used UCX, CMU, MultiNet, Pathway, TCPware or SOCKETSHR with NETLIB.
CMU TCP/IP is supported via LIBCMUII or SOCKETSHR.  The program has
been compiled with VAX C, DEC C and GNU C (VAX version 2.7.1 only).
Versions 1.1 thru 1.5 of DECwindows Motif are supported.  Both HP
SSL and OpenSSL are supported for secure connections.

The files MOSAIC3_8.ZIP and MOSAIC3_8-1.ZIP contain the sources,
documentation and build procedure.  Note that the files are ZIP
archives, so the UNZIP program is needed to unpack them.  MOSAIC3_8.ZIP
should be unzipped first, and then MOSAIC3_8-1.ZIP should be unzipped
in the same directory.  The file README.VMS-3_8 contains the
installation instructions.

See http://vaxa.wvnet.edu/vmswww/vms_mosaic.html for updates and
bug fixes beyond this release.

Changes from the previous release (V3.7) in V3.8:

 o Added support for Motif 1.5
 o Added Stop button to toolbar to stop loading or animations.
 o Added open in new window option to Open Document dialog
 o Added support for ID in all tags
 o Added support for image alpha channel transparency
 o Added support for compressed (4 and 8 bit) BMP images
 o Added support for OS/2, 16 bit, and 32 bit BMP images
 o Added support for MIME types "image/x-bmp" and "image/x-ms-bmp"
 o Added cookie permissions file (MOSAIC.HOSTPERM) and preference
 o Added Cookie Jar Manager option to update the cookie files
 o Added cookie and cookie domain counters to Cookie Jar Manager
 o Added Map and Auction search selections to Navigate menu
 o Added support for crimson and indigo as named colors
 o Added support for &apos, &circ, &minus and &ndash
 o Added partial support for &dagger, &lowast, &ldquo, &lsaquo,
   &lsquo, &rdquo, &rsaquo and &rsquo
 o Added preference setting for text blink time
 o Added preference setting for form button background color
 o Changed the default background color from gray to white
 o Changed cookie domain list to a balanced binary tree
 o Changed to display and store cookie domains in alphabetical order
 o Changed to strip carriage returns, linefeeds and tabs out of URLs
 o Changed to escape blanks in image URLs
 o Changed default web search engine to Google
 o Fixed problem with busy cursor not resetting after window resize
 o Improved the about: URL feature
 o Improved news memory allocation
 o Updated the comment card
 o Eliminated several Informational compiler error messages in LIBJPEG
 o Corrected problems in MAKE_MOSAIC.COM detected by DCL_CHECK
 o Speeded up table width calculation

Changes in V3.8-1:

 o Added architecture type to /VERSION information
 o MAKE_MOSAIC.COM sets DCL parse style to TRADITIONAL
 o Fixed crashes caused by empty cookie file
 o Various bug fixes


George Cook, West Virginia Network (WVNET)
Email address: cook@wvnet.edu