Subject: Re: Mosaic is Back! From: chip@wired.com (Chip Bayers) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 14:00:34 -0700

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At 3:10 AM 4/29/95, 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.
>
>Outside of Netscape, the app is a very top notch browser.  They've
>implemented nearly all of the HTML 3.0 tags, including alignment,
>extra image tags, backgrounds, tables, OLE objects, and lots of other
>goodies.  They also have a VRML extension in the works.  The
>interface rivals Netscape, particularly their options and preferences.
>
>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.

Umm, Spyglass' product is a licensed version of NCSA Mosaic.









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