General Information
Where can I get NCSA Mosaic?
NCSA Mosaic is available at ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in
/Mosaic. Both source code and binaries (for Sun, SGI, IBM
RS/6000, and DECstation Ultrix) are available. (You don't need to
have Motif installed on your system to run NCSA Mosaic, if you pick up a
precompiled binary. You do need Motif 1.1 to compile NCSA Mosaic,
though.)
Who developed NCSA Mosaic?
Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications developed most of NCSA Mosaic.
The CERN World Wide
Web project (in particular, Tim
Berners-Lee) developed the client library and communications code
that NCSA Mosaic uses and created the conceptual framework within
which large parts of Mosaic reside. Many
other people have contributed to NCSA Mosaic's development by
sending us bug reports and comments.
Where's the documentation?
Documentation for NCSA Mosaic is right
here. Details on the X resources NCSA Mosaic uses are here. Documentation on the HTML Widget used
by Mosaic is here.
Is NCSA Mosaic supported?
Yes. For NCSA Mosaic support, please send email to
mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu; we will respond to the best of our
ability.
Why aren't binaries for {HP Snake, Linux, VMS, your platform here}
being distributed?
Because we don't have a machine on which to compile. If you want us
to regularly distribute binaries for a particular machine, donate us a
development system. Else, there's not much we can do.
We will, subject to resource/time constraints, merge user-supplied
patches for various platforms into the Mosaic source; we will also
distribute user-contributed binaries for other systems. Contact
mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu to contribute either.
(We haven't yet merged in changes for VMS because we feel that a full
VMS port will require a great deal of work to maintain, and we don't
currently have the funding nor the manpower to do so.)
How come you haven't moved to the new WWW library yet?
Because we haven't had time and because we have so many other things
that need to be done. Currently, we plan to move to the new library
in early summer ('93).
Who's funding NCSA Mosaic development?
No one, yet. Would you like to? If so, please contact us.
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