Editing NCSA Mosaic (section)

==Features==
Robert Reid notes that Andreessen's team hoped:

{{quote| text=... to rectify many of the shortcomings of the very primitive prototypes then floating around the Internet. Most significantly, their work transformed the appeal of the Web from niche uses in the technical area to mass-market appeal. In particular, these University of Illinois students made two key changes to the Web browser, which hyper-boosted its appeal: they added graphics to what was otherwise boring text-based software, and, most importantly, they ported the software from so-called [[Unix]] computers that are popular only in technical and academic circles, to the [Microsoft] Windows operating system, which is used on more than 80 percent of the computers in the world, especially personal and commercial computers.<ref name="Architects of the Web">{{cite book |last=Reid |first=Robert H. |title=Architects of the Web: 1000 Days That Built the Future of Business |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |year=1997 |isbn=0-471-17187-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/architectsofweb100reid }}</ref>{{rp|xxv}}}}

Mosaic is based on the [[libwww]] [[library (computing)|library]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Kahan|first=José|title=Change History of libwww|url=http://www.w3.org/Library/User/History.html|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|access-date=30 May 2010|date=7 June 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Petrie|first1=Charles|title=Interview Robert Cailliau on the WWW Proposal: "How It Really Happened."|url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/ic-cailliau|publisher=[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]]|access-date=18 August 2010|author-link2=Robert Cailliau|first2=Robert|last2=Cailliau|date=November 1997|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106041256/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/ic-cailliau|archive-date=6 January 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Why Libwww?|url=http://www.w3.org/Library/Activity.html|access-date=15 June 2010|date=5 August 1999|first=José|last=Kahan}}</ref> and thus supported a wide variety of [[Communications protocol|Internet protocols]] included in the library: [[Archie search engine|Archie]], [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]], [[Gopher (protocol)|gopher]], [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP]], [[Network News Transfer Protocol|NNTP]], [[telnet]], [[Wide area information server|WAIS]].<ref name="mosaic and th w3" />

Mosaic is not the first web browser for Microsoft Windows; this is [[Thomas R. Bruce]]'s little-known [[Cello (web browser)|Cello]]. The Unix version of Mosaic was already famous before the Microsoft Windows, Amiga, and Mac versions were released. Other than displaying images embedded in the text (rather than in a separate window), Mosaic's original feature set is similar to the browsers on which it was modeled, such as ViolaWWW.<ref name="faq" /> But Mosaic was the first browser written and supported by a team of full-time programmers, was reliable and easy enough for novices to install, and the inline graphics proved immensely appealing. Mosaic is said to have made the Internet accessible to the ordinary person.

Mosaic was the first browser to explore the concept of [[Web annotation|collaborative annotation]] in 1993<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andreessen|first=Marc|date=1993-05-31|title=group annotation server guinea pigs?|url=http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/0416.html|access-date=2017-11-08|website=webhistory.org}}</ref> but never passed the test state.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marc Andreessen – Why Andreessen Horowitz Is Investing in Rap Genius|url=https://genius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-andreessen-horowitz-is-investing-in-rap-genius-annotated|access-date=2021-10-17|website=Genius}}</ref>

Mosaic was the first browser that could submit [[Form (HTML)|forms]] to a server.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Brian |title=Mosaic |url=http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/mosaic.htm |website=Index D O T Html |publisher=Brian Wilson |access-date=15 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Clarke |first1=Roger |title=The Birth of Web Commerce |url=http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/WCBirth.html |website=Roger Clarke's Web-Site |publisher=XAMAX |access-date=15 February 2022}}</ref>