Latest version of Mosiac for Windows

[Peter Scott]

You might want to take a look at the latest Mosaic for Windows. It has 
some neat new features not found in Netscape. Here is Forrest Stroud's 
review:

NCSA Mosaic -- Mosaic was the first and once greatest web browser, but
lately it's been relegated to the role of playing catch-up to Netscape.
Thankfully, though, Mosaic plays this game very well. The newest
releases contain many of Netscape's best features, including document
caching, improved FTP support, internal support for gifs and jpegs,
built-in newsreader (with a recently added toolbar), new HTML tags
(including centering, tables, and background images), and low cost (it's
free!). Mosaic has a nice spawning feature that allows users to access
multiple pages at the same time. Another useful option is Mosaic's
full-screen presentation mode. Mosaic has also caught up to Netscape in
terms of speed, and some claim that it's even faster than Netscape now.
Mosaic is a 32-bit client that can only be run on Windows 95/NT
platforms or on Windows 3.x platforms that are using the latest version
of Win32s.
 
The official release of Mosaic 2.0 includes several interesting and
unprecedented new features. In addition to an option that allows Mosaic
to automatically check and track links from various web pages (AutoSurf)
and a new advanced hotlist manager (much like Netscape's SmartMarks)
that is seamlessly integrated into Mosaic, there is one cool new feature
that is bound to please the socialite in all of us. Mosaic now offers
the opportunity to Collaborate with other users -- by joining a
collaboration session, you can chat with others, send and receive files,
and partake in web cruising with your friends, all from within Mosaic.
This is the first web browser to allow you to do these three functions
without having to resort to using an external application.
 
Unfortunately, Mosaic does still lack some of Netscape's proprietary
features, including font sizes, advanced support for tables (the width
tag and nested tables), and client side image mapping. Also, Mosaic's
integrated newsreader and internal FTP client currently aren't quite as
solid (in terms of ease of use and appearance) as those offered by
Netscape, but they are getting better with each new release. With the
final release of Mosaic 2.0, the competition has once again heated up
between Netscape and Mosaic, but in the end, I still have to give the
overall edge to Netscape...for now.
 
Pros: Great features, AutoSurfing, collaboration feature, on par with
Netscape in terms of speed
 
Cons: Support for tables, news, and FTP isn't quite as solid as in
Netscape New: AutoSurfing, collaboration sessions, advanced hotlist
manager, many bug fixes, new splash screen
 
Version Reviewed: 2.0 Final Release
Date of Review: 10/5/95
 
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic/Windows/Beta/