BKMOSAHW.RVW  951011
 
"The Mosaic Handbook for Microsoft Windows", Dougherty/Koman, 1994, 1-56592-
094-5
%A   Dale Dougherty dale@ora.com
%A   Richard Koman rkoman@ora.com
%C   103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, CA   95472
%D   1994
%G   1-56592-094-5
%I   O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
%O   800-998-9938, fax: 707-829-0104, nuts@ora.com, brian@ora.com
%O   rick.brown@onlinesys.com mary@ora.com
%P   262
%T   "The Mosaic Handbook for Microsoft Windows"
 
Less general, and more specific to the MS-Windows product than the companion
volume for X, this work still provides one of the better overviews of Mosaic. 
The first four chapters are general explorations of the Internet, World Wide
Web (WWW or W3), and the Global Network Navigator (GNN).  Chapters five to
seven 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 and HTML.  SLIP,
unfortuantely, is only mentioned in the glossary.
 
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, 1995   BKMOSAHW.RVW  951011

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