The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is ready with release version 2.0 of Mosaic for the Macintosh, which comes in fat-binary format. Many Mac users have been chafing at the bit for the ability to fill in on-screen forms, which is a common feature of all 2.X versions of Mosaic. However the developers at the […]
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is ready with release version 2.0 of Mosaic for the Macintosh, which comes in fat-binary format. Many Mac users have been chafing at the bit for the ability to fill in on-screen forms, which is a common feature of all 2.X versions of Mosaic. However the developers at the National Center have gone a lot further. As well as forms and native Power Macintosh support, new features scheduled for the release include speech recognition on AV Macs – yes it is now possible to shout at your machine and get it to choose links and navigate forwards and backwards through pages. In an announcement posted on Usenet, National Center developer Mike McCool said that this support would be extended to all Power Macintoshes, pending a system extension release from Apple Computer Inc. Other changes are smaller, but should be just as welcome; they include additional HTML+ support, including tables, event support, and Applescript Open URL support. Finally, those using slow speed or dial-up links will be encouraged by an ‘HTTP Header mode’ which enables the user to view the document’s date, size, and type before deciding whether to download it.
