AirMosaic
Encyclopedia
AirMosaic was an early commercial web browser based on the NCSA
Mosaic
browser.
The browser won Datamation
's Best Product of the Year award for 1994.
The AirMosaic browser was available as part of several packages: the AIR Series, Internet in a Box
and Mosaic In A Box and separately. AirMosaic for Windows could also be downloaded as a demo, and then purchased over the Internet as a separate product.
, AirMosaic offers the same feature set as Mosaic and offers several new ones like a configuration menu for not editing an INI file.
Other feature contained:
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is an American state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances science and engineering. NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but it provides high-performance...
Mosaic
Mosaic (web browser)
Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, NNTP, and gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that opened...
browser.
The browser won Datamation
Datamation
Datamation was a print computer magazine published in the United States between 1957 and 1998. When first published it wasn't clear there would be a significant market for a computer magazine given how few computers there were...
's Best Product of the Year award for 1994.
The AirMosaic browser was available as part of several packages: the AIR Series, Internet in a Box
Internet in a Box
Internet in a Box was one of the first commercially available Internet connection software packages available for sale to the public. Spry, Inc...
and Mosaic In A Box and separately. AirMosaic for Windows could also be downloaded as a demo, and then purchased over the Internet as a separate product.
Features
Although Mosaic required to install Win32sWin32s
Win32s is a 32-bit application runtime environment for the Microsoft Windows 3.1 and 3.11 operating systems. It allowed some 32-bit applications to run on the 16-bit operating system using call thunks.- Concept and Characteristics :...
, AirMosaic offers the same feature set as Mosaic and offers several new ones like a configuration menu for not editing an INI file.
Other feature contained:
- a kiosk modeKiosk softwareKiosk software is the system and user interface software designed for a kiosk or Internet kiosk. Kiosk software locks down the application in order to protect the kiosk from users. Kiosk software may offer remote monitoring to manage multiple kiosks from another location...
- import existing bookmarks from Mosaic
External links
- Air Mosaic Demo, Evolt.org