These books introduce you to Mosaic and its use in navigating and finding information on the World Wide Web. Using Mosaic's point-and-click interface, a user can move from document to document, viewing text, graphics, video, or the combination of any of these media, without having to worry where that information is located. 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. For more advanced users, the books describe how to add external viewers to Mosaic and how to customize the Mosaic interface.

The Microsoft and Macintosh versions come with a copy of Spyglass(TM) Mosaic(TM) on diskettes; the X Window version comes with Spyglass Mosaic on CD-ROM. Spyglass Mosaic is based on the original Mosaic developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). However, it is not a public domain program, nor is it the same as the versions that can be downloaded from the Net. Spyglass, Inc. was chosen by NCSA as the master licensee of NCSA Mosaic. Spyglass is committed to maintaining a single code base for all three Mosaic platforms and to keeping a consistent interface across all platforms. All three versions should be consistent in their reliability, which has not been true in the versions on the Net. Spyglass Mosaic includes:

• Dramatically faster performance
  • Reduced memory requirements--one-half to one-third the memory previously required
  • Easier installation
  • Support for printing
  • Simplified interface for easier browsing
  • Support for forms, allowing for two-way communication between users and Web servers
  • Proxy gateway support for security in networked environments

O'Reilly fully supports the software and, as new versions become available, we can provide them online to registered users. All three Mosaic books include a single user license.

Spyglass is a trademark of Spyglass, Inc. Mosaic is a trademark of the University of Illinois.