Description
Mosaic is the hottest new graphical interface to the Internet. This book describes how to navigate the World Wide Web using Mosaic's point-and-click interface and how to use Mosaic to replace some of the traditional Internet functions, like FTP, Gopher, Archie, Veronica, and WAIS. Includes a diskette containing Spyglass(TM) Mosaic(TM) V1.0 for the Macintosh (with forms support) and a subscription to the Global Network Navigator (TM) (GNN (R)).
Full Description
The Mosaic Handbook for the Macintosh 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 UNIX 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 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 diskette containing Spyglass(TM) Mosaic(TM) V1.0 for the Macintosh (with forms support) and a subscription to the Global Network Navigator (TM) (GNN (R)), the leading WWW-based information service on the Internet. Unlike the public domain version of this software, Spyglass Mosaic is a fully supported commercial product. Spyglass is a trademark of Spyglass, Inc. Mosaic is a trademark of the University of Illinois.
Colophon
Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The image on the cover of The Mosaic Handbook for the Macintosh is adapted from Winslow Homer's 1886 painting, "Eight Bells!" Eight bells was the call made when a navigator's four-hour watch ended. Before leaving watch, a final sextant reading was taken and recorded.
The sextant is an instrument used to determine latitude and longitude by measuring the angle between the horizon and the sun, or any other celestial body. Two people independently invented the sextant, in about 1730: John Hadley, an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey, an American inventor. Employing a telescope and two mirrors, the angle of the celestial object is measured on an arc of one-sixth of a circle. Measurement of angles up to 120 degrees are possible.
Prior to the invention of the sextant, the quadrant was used for determining latitude. The quadrant was invented by the navigators who were employed by the Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator. Prince Henry, and the navigators and cosmographers whom he gathered around him, are credited with many of the navigational advances that helped to push forward the Age of Exploration. He is also credited with the legendary refusal of some men to stop and ask for directions. Ironically, Prince Henry himself never left Portugal. ...
Edie Freedman designed this cover. The cover image is adapted from a 19th-century engraving from the Bettman Archives. The cover layout was produced with Quark XPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font.
The inside formats were designed by Edie Freedman and implemented in sqtroff by Lenny Muellner. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Aldus Freehand by Chris Reilley, and the screenshots were processed in Adobe PhotoShop using Photomatic. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.
