Synopses & Reviews
The Mosaic Handbook for the X Window System describes how to navigate the World Wide Web using Mosaic, the graphical interface designed at NCSA.Mosaic is designed to navigate the hyperlinks that connect the systems on the World Wide Web. Using Mosaic's point-and-click interface, a user can move from document to document, viewing text, graphics, video, audio, or the combination of any of these media, without having to worry about where that information is located. The Mosaic user gains access to the information on thousands of Internet servers found all over the world with no greater knowledge than is contained within the pages of this short book.Until recently, the Internet was largely a command-line phenomenon. A user needed to know a different tool for each operation (s)he wanted to perform, and each tool had its own obscure command-line interface. For the most part, where the tools displayed information at all, that information was text-based.Mosaic has changed all that. In addition to its interface to the World Wide Web, Mosaic provides a graphical interface to most Internet utilities, like FTP, Gopher, Archie, Veronica, and WAIS. Users no longer need to know UNIX command-line syntax to perform common tasks on the Internet. This book describes how to use Mosaic to accomplish these tasks.A chapter in the book introduces the reader to HTML, the hypertext authoring language used by WWW documents. The reader will learn enough about HTML to create his/her own home page, thus becoming a potential information provider on the WWW! This book also explains how to customize and extend Mosaic to allow, for example, the use of other viewers and browsers.The book includes a CD containing Spyglass™ Mosaic™ V2.4 for the X Window System and a subscription to the Global Network Navigator ™ (GNN ®), the leading WWW-based information service on the Internet. (When a version is available, we will supply Enhanced NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System, V1.0.)
Synopsis
This book describes how to navigate the World Wide Web (WWW) using Mosaic, the hottest new graphical interface to the Internet. Created at NCSA, Mosaicis designed to navigate the hyperlinks that connect the systems on the WWW.Using Mosaic's point-and-click interface, a user can move from document todocument, viewing text, graphics, video, audio, or the combination of anyof these media -- without having to worry about where the information islocated. With no greater knowledge than is contained in this short book, Mosaic users gain access to information on thousands of Internet serversworldwide. Mosaic also provides a graphical interface to most Internet utilities, like FTP, Gopher, Archie, Veronica, and WAIS. This book describes how touse Mosaic to accomplish these common tasks. For more advanced users, itexplains how to customize and extend Mosaic to allow, for example, the useof other viewers and browsers and provides an introduction to HTML, thehypertext authoring language for the Web. The book includes a C containingSpyglass(TM) Mosaic(TM) V2.4 for the X Window System and a subscription tothe Global Network Navigator (TM) (GNN (R)). (Will be replaced with EnhancedNCSA Mosaic V1.0 for the X Window System when available.)
Synopsis
Mosaic is fast becoming the interface of choice for UNIX users on the Internet. This book introduces users to Mosaic and its use in navigating and finding information on the World Wide Web. It shows how you can use Mosaic to replace some of the traditional Internet functions like ftp, gopher, archie, and veronica. Covers adding external viewers to Mosaic and customizing the Mosaic interface.
Synopsis
Mosaic is fast becoming the interface of choice for UNIX users on the Internet. This book introduces users to Mosaic and its use in navigating and finding information on the World Wide Web. It shows how you can use Mosaic to replace some of the traditional Internet functions like ftp, gopher, archie, and veronica. Covers adding external viewers to Mosaic and customizing the Mosaic interface.
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System requirements for accompanying computer disc: UNIX.
About the Author
Dale Dougherty is the publisher of the O'Reilly Network and Director of O'Reilly Research. Dale has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important efforts, including founding O'Reilly & Associates with Tim O'Reilly. He was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site. Dale was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for Web designers, and he was O'Reilly & Associates' first editor. Dale has written and edited numerous books at O'Reilly & Associates. Dougherty is a Lecturer in the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley.
Paula Ferguson is the Executive Editor for O'Reilly Web and Scripting editorial group.