Help On Mosaic v0.12

If you have accessed this document from the Help On Version menu selection in NCSA Mosaic, you are using version 0.12.

Version 0.12 includes the following changes from version 0.11:

Files retrieved via binary transfer mode now get a file selection box for user-provided filename.
Inlined image widths are now taken into account when formatting text & images together.
Fixed trigger of server bug on some systems wrt freeing color cells.
Inlined images work on 24-bit TrueColor servers now.
GUI interface for mailing hotlist and window history lists.
Support for <ol> (numbered lists).
Better support for nested description lists.
Support for <tt>, <b>, <i>, <em>, <strong>, <code>, <samp>, <kbd>, <var>, and corresponding resources italicFont, boldFont, and fixedFont.
Better 8-bit cleanliness.
Bug with inlined images as anchors at end of documents fixed.
Compact description lists: <dl compact> causes first line of <dd> text to jump up on same line with <dt> if room exists.
SGML representations of 8-bit ISO8859 characters now work.
Fixed bugs with weird Lucida font metrics on DEC Alpha and a few other servers.
Fixed coredump triggered by <li>'s outside of a list.
Fixed coredumps on malformed URL's like telnet:machine.name.
Fixed coredumps on malformed URL's like gopher:/gopher.uiuc.edu/.
Various document types returned via WAIS searches are now detected (by extension only) and forked to viewers as appropriate.
Fixed minor bug with disappearing whitespace.
Fixed bug with extraneous newlines in description lists in very narrow windows.
Fixed bug with erroneous description elements causing text to fall off the left side of the screen.
Audio annotations on HP systems with audio hardware work now.
Default SGI audio annotation quality is lower now, to decrease disk space usage.
SCO Open Desktop support.
Harris Nighthawk support.
AIX 3.2 support for reading local directories.
Minor bugfixes and cleanups.

Here are some tests of the new text style support.

This is typewriter style text blah blah.
This is bold style text blah blah.
This is italic style text blah blah.
This is emphasized style text blah blah.
This is strong style text blah blah.
This is code style text blah blah.
This is samp style text blah blah.
This is keyboard style text blah blah.
This is variable style text blah blah.

This is typewriter style text blah blah. This is bold style text blah blah. This is italic style text blah blah. This is emphasized style text blah blah. This is strong style text blah blah. This is code style text blah blah. This is samp style text blah blah. This is keyboard style text blah blah. This is variable style text blah blah.

Other Information

Information on other versions of NCSA Mosaic is here.

General information on NCSA Mosaic is available here.