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On Sat, 29 Apr 1995, Jeremy Allaire wrote:

> Here's an interesting story.  The NCSA Mosaic Team has continued
> it's innovations.  For those who don't have it, I encourage you to take
> a look at NCSA's latest releases of Mosaic.

> While Mosaic will never reach a point where it is a serious commercial
> contender (nor should it try), it points out oh so clearly why the browser
> wars are not even close to over.

> Mosaic 2.0 puts BookLink, Air, Spyglass, and others to shame for their
> incompetence and lack of innovations.
> http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Browsers/WinMosaic__NCSA_/

Wait until you see what 2.5 does!  It has more authentication, comes with 
the Common Client Interface, and support for Web interfaces to NNTP-News, 
tn3270, Gopher, Wais, databases, and mail.

Support for standard World Wide Web authentication scheme, providing 
security about equivalent
   to telnet's username/password scheme. 
   Customizable encryption hooks to allow external PEM or PGP encryption 
	to be used to request and receive encrypted documents. 
   Support for encrypted submission of forms. 
   Support for first time encryption of all http communication. 
   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. 
   Ability to pass any or all URL access methods to a proxy gateway to 
simulate direct network
   connection for those behind firewalls. 

 Read about it at: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/XMosaic/features.html

In addition, you can get source and Binaries for:
Bull DPX/23xx binary 
      DG AVIION binary 
      DESQview/X binary 
      HP9000/3xx/4xx binary 
      HP 700 binary 
      Linux binary 
      NeXT binary 
      VMS source and context diffs 
      Unixware binary 
   Sun 3 binary available at ftp.cs.ubc.ca in /pub/local/www 
   Linux binary available at sunsite.unc.edu in 
/pub/Linux/system/Network/info-systems/ 
   386bsd source and binary available at gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de in 
/pub/xmosaic/ 
   SCO ODT binary available at sosco.sco.com in /TLS/, the TLS number is 
tls033. 
   Apple A/UX binary is available at iraf.noao.edu in 
/iraf/v210/AUX3/auxbin/ 
   Amiga version is available at SUNY Stony Brook 
   Term Mosaic source is available at ftp.alumni.caltech.edu in 
/pub/mcbeath/web/TermMosaic 
   VMS ports available at ftp.wku.edu in /vms/unsupported/mosaic/ (use a 
traditional FTP client to
   access ftp.wku.edu, since Mosaic does not communicate well with VMS 
FTP servers.) 
   Mosaic for OS/2 information is available at 
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/os2/software.html 
   Mosaic for NeXTSTEP information is available at 
   http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/ 


I'm sure the windows version will be out sometime around August.  I 
suppose Unix will have something even newer by then.

(Like ability to get history)  Check out the section on Common Client 
Interface.

	Rex Ballard


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon May  8 03:28:08 1995