Mosaic For Dummies

Everything you need to know about the most popular viewer of the World-Wide-Web - Mosaic. The World-Wide-Web (WWW) is a collection of machines around the world that can be accessed on the Net. The Web provides hypertext documents via an Internet connection and can link to other hypertext documents anywhere in the world. Mosaic is the most popular viewer for the WWW and it can be found in many versions for different platforms, and makes browsing the Net easier than ever. This book shows: how to learn where to find Mosaic and how to use it to navigate the Internet easily - point and click your way around the world; find out about the customised versions of Mosaic licensed by different companies; get the most out of Mosaic - see how to set up for most effective use; what are the major differences between the shareware version of Mosiac and the shrink-wrapped version put out by software companies? What do you need? Mosaic is multimedia software created by the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, a US government agency. It provides front-end to the WWW (the fastest growing Internet service) that is described as relatively intuitive.
It is currently available under several platforms: Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, X Window/UNIX. It exists online as shareware and also an enhanced product available from software companies who have licensed it from the NCSA. This book covers all versions. David Angell and Brent Heslop have made a career out of demystifying computers. They are both partners in Bookware, a Silicon Valley technical writing firm and contributing writers to PC Magazine's "Read only" book review. Angell and Heslop are also co-authors of IDG's "PC World Word for Windows 6 Handbook".