VMS Mosaic

Infobox_Software
name = VMS Mosaic



caption = Wikipedia page displayed in Mosaic
operating_system = OpenVMS
latest_release_version = 4.2
latest_release_date = September 2, 2007
genre = Web browser
license =
website = [http://vaxa.wvnet.edu/vmswww/vms_mosaic.html vaxa.wvnet.edu/vmswww/vms_mosaic.html]

VMS Mosaic is a GUI web browser for use on the OpenVMS operating system [cite web |url=http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c108973a801/?ciid=0a08efed55f02110efed55f02110275d6e10RCRD
year=2006 |title= Mosaic browser for OpenVMS |publisher=Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P |accessdate=2007-11-03] . It is the only direct descendent of NCSA Mosaic (the first popular web browsercite web |url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_mosaic.htm |title=Mosaic -- The First Global Web Browser |last=Andreessen |first=Marc |accessdate=2007-11-02] ) which is still being actively developed. It is supported on VAX, DEC Alpha and Itanium systemscite web |url=http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware80/mosaic40/freeware_readme.txt |year=2006 |title= Mosaic 4.0 freeware_readme.txt |publisher=Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P |accessdate=2007-11-02] . It is a non-commercial (freeware) browser whose use is covered by various licenses including the original NCSA license.

The current release (V4.2 [cite web |url=http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=07/09/03/1740114 |title=OpenVMS.org - OpenVMS Community Portal (VMS Mosaic V4.2) |publisher=OpenVMS.org |year=2007 |accessdate=2007-11-02] ) supports HTML V4.0, secure connections via OpenSSL, cookies, and various image formats including GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TGA, TIFF and JPEG 2000. It does not support Java, JavaScript or style sheets.

History

When NCSA stopped development of NCSA Mosaic at version 2.7b5 in January 1997 , several small groups of software developers continued work on Mosaic. Two of the resulting browsers were VMS Mosaic and mMosaic [cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper05/paper05.html |title=W3C mMosaic |last=dauphin |first=Gilles |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |year=1996 |accessdate=2007-11-02] . Although work on mMosaic stopped in 2004, much of its HTML engine has been incorporated into VMS Mosaic. A complete change history starting with NCSA Mosaic for X version 0.5 can be found [http://wvnvms.wvnet.edu/vmswww/mosaic/versions.html here] .

The first version of NCSA Mosaic ported to VMS was 1.2. The port was done by Bjorn S. Nilsson in the summer of 1993. [cite web |url=ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic/Contrib/README.VMS |title=README.VMS |year=1993 |publisher=National Center for Supercomputing Applications |first=Bjorn |last=Nilsson |accessdate=2007-11-02]

See also

*List of web browsers

External links

* [http://vaxa.wvnet.edu/vmswww/vms_mosaic.html VMS Mosaic home page]

References