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The Basics of Building Web Pages and Sites 1
■ It was the first commonly available browser to have inline images.
■ It offered support for a number of graphics formats.
■ It was able to render both video and audio formats.
■ It introduced as add-ons the features of history (which allowed the tracking of sites
visited) and bookmarks.
The Mosaic browser was aggressively marketed with a hitherto unknown 24-hour technical sup-
port for its client base. Problems were efficiently monitored, tagged, and resolved. In a matter of
months, Bina improved Mosaic, and it became known as Netscape. Ultimately, NCSA asserted its
rights over Mosaic and the innovations developed in Mosaic were licensed to Microsoft (among
several other companies). Hence, the Internet Explorer (IE) browser was originally built around
the Mosaic core. Development work on Mosaic officially ceased in 1997.
FIGURE 1-3
The Mosaic browser introduced a number of new features.
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