{"id":37808,"date":"2011-10-18T04:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mosaic-offered-many-new-web-features-including\/"},"modified":"2011-10-18T04:08:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T04:08:07","slug":"mosaic-offered-many-new-web-features-including","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mosaic-offered-many-new-web-features-including\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Mosaic offered many new web features, including support for video clips, sound, forms, bookmarks, and history files. &ldquo;The striking thing about it was that unlike all the earlier X-browsers, it was all contained in a single file,&rdquo; Gillies and Cailliau explain: Installing it was as simple as pulling it across the network and running it. Later on Mosaic would rise to fame because of the <img \/> tag that allowed you to put images inline for the first time, rather than having them pop up in a different window like Tim&rsquo;s original NeXT browser did. That made it easier for people to make Web pages look more like the familiar print media they were use to; not everyone&rsquo;s idea of a brave new world, but it certainly got Mosaic noticed. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What I think Marc did really well,&rdquo; Tim Berners-Lee later wrote, &ldquo;is make it very easy to install, and he supported it by fixing bugs via e-mail any time night or day. You&rsquo;d send him a bug report and then two hours later he&rsquo;d mail you a fix.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Mosaic&rsquo;s biggest breakthrough, in retrospect, was that it was a cross-platform browser. &ldquo;By the power vested in me by nobody in particular, X-Mosaic is hereby released,&rdquo; Andreeson proudly declared on the www-talk group on January 23, 1993. Aleks Totic unveiled his Mac version a few months later. A PC version came from the hands of Chris Wilson and Jon Mittelhauser. The Mosaic browser was based on Viola and Midas, the Computer History museum&rsquo;s exhibit notes. And it used the CERN code library. &ldquo;But unlike others, it was reliable, could be installed by amateurs, and soon added colorful graphics within Web pages instead of as separate windows.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/web\/news\/2011\/10\/before-netscape-forgotten-web-browsers-of-the-early-1990s.ars\">Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosaic offered many new web features, including support for video clips, sound, forms, bookmarks, and history files. &ldquo;The striking thing about it was that unlike all the earlier X-browsers, it was all contained in a single file,&rdquo; Gillies and Cailliau explain: Installing it was as simple as pulling it across the network and running it. 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