NCSA Mosaic for X 2.2 available

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NCSA Mosaic for X 2.2 is now available.

..ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Mosaic:

  o Source in /Mosaic/Mosaic-source.

  o Binaries for SunOS 4.1.3, AIX 3.2.4 with X11R5, IRIX 4.x, IRIX 5.1.x,
    DEC Alpha (OSF/1), DEC Ultrix, and HP/UX 9.x (700-series) in
    /Mosaic/Mosaic-binaries.

As always, thanks for all the feedback!

If you have any comments, questions, or problems with Mosaic 2.2,
please send mail to mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu.  Also please drop us a
note if you enjoy using Mosaic or if you are using it in any
interesting projects or applications -- we love to hear from our
users!

Changes from version 2.1 to version 2.2 include:

 o Fixed bug in unrecognized URLs that have whitespace at the beginning.
 o Fixed bug with transparent color GIF89 images.
 o Fixed more inlined image parsing code dumps.
 o Fixed odd extra flashing in documents accessed after form documents.
 o Fixed socket leak in interrupted I/O.
 o Fixed bug in whitespace terminated entity '&' escapes.
 o Added Frans Van Hoesel's latest postscript changes.
 o Added Frans Van Hoesel's extra font support.
 o Speedups in GIF decoding, thanks to David Koblas.
 o Improved handling of monochrome displays. Detect mono without needing
   the -mono option, and dither inlined images.
 o Added <OPTION VALUE=val> support so you can have the value returned
   different than the string displayed.
 o Added <INPUT TYPE=hidden> to allow invisible constant name/value pairs
   to be added to submitted forms.
 o Made resource verticalScrollOnRight user settable.
 o Added hooks for PEM and PGP decoding by external application(s).
 o Added support for proxy gateways, specifiable on a per access method basis.


Cheers,
Marc (in absentia) & Eric

--
Marc Andreessen & Eric Bina
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu & ebina@ncsa.uiuc.edu