"The Mosaic Handbook for the X Window System", Dougherty/Koman/Ferguson, 1994,
1-56592-095-3
rkoman@ora.com dale@ora.com paula@ora.com
%A Dale Dougherty
%A Richard Koman
%A Paula Ferguson
%C 103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, CA 95472
%D 1994
%G 1-56592-095-3
%I O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
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%O rick.brown@onlinesys.com mary@ora.com
%P 262
%T "The Mosaic Handbook for the X Window System"

The first four chapters seem to have very little to do with Mosaic, per se,
being general explorations of the Internet, World Wide Web (WWW or W3), and the
Global Network Navigator (GNN). Chapters five to seven, however, give a great
deal more detail than previous Internet guides on customization of Mosaic,
multimedia extensions, and HTML (HyperText Markup Language). A final chapter
looks at possible future directions, contacts, and resources. Appendices give
reference guides to Mosaic, HTML and X, as well as installation instructions
for the included CD-ROM (plus the locations of the files on the net).

A great deal of the material here is simple, but some of it is quite important
for the operation of Mosaic as a realistic tool. Performance considerations
are touched on in a number of places, and the ability to "delay" (more
accurately, "suspend") image file loading will likely be the single most widely
used "customization" for veteran browsers. The discussion of the use (and
limitations) of Mosaic for accessing gopher, WAIS, ftp, telnet, and news
resources is also helpful for deciding when to do a quick job "through" Mosaic,
or when to shut down and use the real tools.

copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKMOSAHX.RVW 941014