Editing NCSA Mosaic (section)

==Release history==

The X, Windows, and Mac versions of Mosaic all had separate development teams and code bases.

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|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;" width="33%" align="center"|Internal Build
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;" width="33%" align="center"|Pre-release
|style="background-color:#6cde71;" width="33%" align="center"|Stable release
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=== NCSA Mosaic for X ===
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! Series
! style=width:6.5em | Version
! style=width:6.9em | Release date
! Notes & features
! Supported platforms
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|rowspan=13 style="background-color:#cccccc;" |'''{{center|0.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|0.1
|Dec, 1992
|Browse plaintext and HTML documents, Gopher servers, anonymous FTP servers, and local files; HTTP/0.9
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|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|0.2
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|Fixed fatal bug in 0.1
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|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|0.3
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|Support for NCSA's DTM (broadcasts documents to real-time networked workgroup collaboration sessions)
|-
|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|0.4
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.5
|Jan 23, 1993
|Initial public release (as ''NCSA X Mosaic'').  Save/mail/print; History list; On-the-fly font selection; Hotlist
|rowspan=2 | {{center|<small>SGI ([[IRIX]] 4.0.2)<br>IBM ([[IBM AIX|AIX]] 3.2)<br>[[Sun-4|Sun 4]] ([[SunOS]] 4.1.2)</small> }}
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.6
|Jan 31, 1993
|Different colors for visited links; Specify a start page
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.7
|Feb 11, 1993
|Links are now underlined; Able to mouse-select each character of text on a web page; Annotations; Program logo in top-right corner (predecessor to [[throbber]])
|rowspan=5 | {{center|<small>All Above<br>+<br>[[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[Ultrix]]</small> }}
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.8
|Feb 14, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.9
|Mar 4, 1993
|Audio annotations (SGI only); Product name changed to ''NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System''
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.10
|Mar 14, 1993
|Introduced <code>&lt;IMG&gt;</code> tag: inlined images (GIF & [[XBM]]) in HTML documents; Find in page
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.11
|Mar 17, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.12
|Apr 5, 1993
|Support for <code>&lt;OL&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;TT&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;B&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;I&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;EM&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;STRONG&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;CODE&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;SAMP&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;KBD&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;VAR&gt;</code>
|rowspan=2 | {{center|<small>All Above<br>+<br>[[OpenServer|SCO Open Desktop]]<br>[[Harris Corporation|Harris]] Nighthawk</small> }}
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.13
|Apr 12, 1993
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|-
|rowspan=5 style="background-color:#99ccff;" |'''{{center|1.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|1.0
|Apr 21, 1993
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|rowspan=5 | {{center|<small>All Above<br>+<br>[[Oracle Solaris|Solaris]] 2.x<br>[[DEC alpha]] (OSF/1)<br>Dell [[UNIX System V|SVR4]]<br>[[HP/UX]] 7.x, 8.x, 9.x<br>NeXT BSD</small> }}
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|1.1-pre1
|May 31, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|1.1-pre2
|Jun 2, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|1.1
|Jun 4, 1993
|[[Image map]] support; Print/save to [[PostScript]]; Support for <code>&lt;CITE&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;</code>; Support for group annotation servers
|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|1.2
|Jun 30, 1993
|Support for file://localhost/ scheme for accessing local files; Many bug fixes and under-hood improvements
|-
|rowspan=35 style="background-color:#0066ff;color:#ffffff" |'''{{center|2.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0-pre0
|Jul 21, 1993
|Displays the URL when mouse hovers over a link; "Search Keyword" area removed from bottom (moved to menu dialog box)
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0-pre1
|Aug 2, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0-pre2
|Aug 10, 1993
|Reload button now also reloads images
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0-pre3
|Sep 5, 1993
|Support for [[HTML form|forms]]; Support for <code>&lt;BR&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;HR&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;STRIKE&gt;</code>; HTTP/1.0 compliant
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0-pre4
|Sep 29, 1993
|Can stop page loading; <code>&lt;IMG ALIGN&gt;</code> attribute support
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0-pre5
|Oct 10, 1993
|Form <code>INPUT</code> types of <code>RADIO</code>, <code>PASSWORD</code>, <code>OPTION</code> added; Program logo becomes a throbber (now animates during page loads)
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0-pre6
|Oct 20, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0-pre7
|Nov 2, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0-pre8
|Nov 7, 1993
|New colorful spinning globe throbber
|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.0
|Nov 10, 1993
|
|rowspan=2 | {{center|<small>SunOS 4.1.3<br>Solaris 2.3<br>AIX 3.2.4 with X11R5<br>IRIX 4.x<br>DEC alpha (OSF/1)<br>DEC Ultrix<br>HP/UX 9.x (700 Series)</small> }}
|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.1
|Dec 11, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.2
|Feb 9, 1994
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|rowspan=3 | {{center|<small>All from 2.1<br>+<br>IRIX 5.1.x</small> }}
|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.3
|Apr 8, 1994
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|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.4
|Apr 11, 1994
|Fixes a major bug with forms introduced in 2.3; Last widely used release of ''NCSA Mosaic for X''
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.5 alpha 1
|Sep 22, 1994
|Limited support for tables; Kiosk Mode; Nested Hotlists; Common Client Interface (CCI) API
|rowspan=7 | {{center|<small>SunOS 4.1.3<br>Solaris 2.3<br>AIX 3.2.4<br>IRIX 4.0.x and 5.x<br>DEC alpha (OSF/1 1.3 and 3.0)<br>DEC Ultrix 4.x<br>HP/UX 7.x, 8.x, 9.x<br>Linux 1.1.94</small> }}
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.5 beta 1
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|Support for <code>&lt;SUP&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;SUB&gt;</code>
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.5 beta 2
|Oct 11, 1994
|Removed the word "Document" from the Title and URL fields
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.5 beta 3
|Dec 22, 1994
|Support for <code>&lt;U&gt;</code> (underline)
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.5 beta 4
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.5 beta 5
|Mar 4, 1995
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|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.5
|Mar 12, 1995
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|-
|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|2.6 alpha 1
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|Inline JPEGs; Can now enter URLs directly into the [[address bar]] and press return to load them; Support for <code>mailto:</code> links
|rowspan=6 | {{center|<small>All from 2.5<br>+<br>Solaris 2.4</small> }}
|-
|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|2.6 alpha 2
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.6 beta 1
|Apr 6, 1995
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.6 beta 2
|May 20, 1995
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.6 beta 3
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|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.6
|Jul 6, 1995
|Official "final" release
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.7 beta 1
|Jul 27, 1995
|Inline PNGs; Support for [[Secure Sockets Layer|SSL]] ([[MD5]] & [[Kerberos (protocol)|Kerberos]] 4/5); Security Icon in lower-left corner of window; [[Keepalive]] connections
|rowspan=4 | {{center|<small>SunOS 4.1.3<br>Solaris 2.3 and 2.4<br>AIX 4.4<br>IRIX 4.0.x and 5.x<br>DEC alpha (OSF/1 1.3 and 3.0)<br>DEC Ultrix 4.x<br>HP/UX 7.x, 8.x, 9.x<br>Linux 1.2.13<br>BSD/OS 2.1</small> }}
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.7 beta 2
|Oct 19, 1995
|Document title moved to window Title Bar; Load progress bar in lower-right corner of window
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.7 beta 3
|Feb 26, 1996
|Background colors; Can enter URLs without http:// prefix; Detachable Toolbar; Contextual right-click menus; Support for <code>border</code> attribute for linked images; <code>action=mailto</code> support in forms; [[Splash screen]]; Customizable Throbber; New application icons
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.7 beta 4
|Mar 30, 1996
|Background Images; Cleaned up and colorized toolbar icons; User Agent spoofing
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.7 beta 5
|Jul 18, 1996
|Printing in Kiosk Mode
|{{center|<small>All from 2.7b4 + SCO System V 3.2</small> }}
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|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|2.8 alpha 1
|Aug 20, 1996
|A complete re-write code named "Project: Hyperion": Supports HTML 3.2; Options for loose or strict HTML parsing; Style sheets
|-
|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|2.8 alpha 2
|Sep 10, 1996
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.8 alpha 3
|Nov 14, 1996
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|}

=== NCSA Mosaic for Windows ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Series
! style=width:6.5em | Version
! style=min-width:7em | Release date
! Notes & features
|-
|rowspan=7 style="background-color:#cccccc;" |'''{{center|0.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|0.1a
|Jun, 1993
|Support for inline GIFs; Support for [[Au file format|.au sound files]]; Optional status bar to display hyperlink destinations; Customizable font selection
|-
|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|0.2a
|
|Local file support; User-configurable Hotlist
|-
|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|0.3a
|
|Support for inline XBMs; Option to set a start page; Support for [[Audio Interchange File Format|AIFF]] sound files
|-
|style="background-color:#a9a9a9;"|0.4a
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|Support for <code>&lt;BR&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;B&gt;</code>, and <code>&lt;I&gt;</code>
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.5a
|Sep 16, 1993
|Find in page; Image caching; Much faster scrolling; Hyperlinks to anchors within a document; Standard file dialog to open files on local disk; Drag and Drop local files into browser
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.6b
|Sep 28, 1993
|Image map support; Support for <code>&lt;HR&gt;</code>; Scrolling via keys
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|0.7b
|Oct 17,1993
|Document caching; HTTP/1.0 compliant
|-
|style="background-color:#99ccff;" |'''{{center|1.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|1.0
|Nov 11, 1993
|Can stop page loading; Images can now be aligned middle, top, or bottom; Better looking horizontal rules
|-
|rowspan=17 style="background-color:#0066ff;color:#ffffff" |'''{{center|2.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 1
|Jan 31, 1994
|Support for forms; Inlined image caching across pages
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 2
|Feb 28, 1994
|New Hotlist/Menu UI; DNS caching; Faster GIF decoding; Support for form <code>INPUT</code> type <code>HIDDEN</code>
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 3
|Apr 6, 1994
|Application is now 32-bit; Can now print documents; Viewing and saving document source; Support for <code>&lt;EM&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;STRONG&gt;</code>; Horizontal scrollbars for documents wider than the screen
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 4
|Apr 14, 1994
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 5
|Jun 24, 1994
|Can now enter URLs directly into the address bar and press return to load them; Colorized toolbar icons; XBM images decode 100 times faster
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 6
|Jul 27, 1994
|"Document Title:" bar removed (document title moved to window Title Bar), "Document URL:" caption shortened to just "URL:" for address bar; Smaller Throbber; Links are now underlined; Kiosk Mode; Speed improvements; Memory issue fixes
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 7
|Sep 7, 1994
|Throbber changes size relative to how many toolbars are shown; Mouse-over tooltips added
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 8
|Dec 20, 1994
|Support for tables; Support for <code>&lt;U&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;S&gt;</code>/<code>&lt;STRIKE&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;SUP&gt;</code>/<code>&lt;SUPER&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;SUB&gt;</code>; Support for transparent GIFs; No longer crashes when encountering bad HTML; Refined Throbber graphics (wires)
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 9
|Jan 25, 1995
|Cancel and Check buttons added next to address bar; Presentation mode; Right-click menu options; Support for <code>mailto:</code> links
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0.0 beta 1
|Mar 13, 1995
|Inline JPEGs; Support for <code>ALT</code> information in <code>IMG</code> tags; Can now tab from one form field to another; Hotlist Manager; Splash screen; +/- keys to change font sizes;
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0.0 beta 2
|Mar 23, 1995
|Support for multiple <code>mailto:</code>
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0.0 beta 3
|Mar 28, 1995
|256 character URL limit fixed
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0.0 beta 4
|Apr 6, 1995
|Global History; New HTML 3.0 tag attributes; URL bar is now also a list box
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0.0 final beta
|Jul 12, 1995
|Speed and printing improvements
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|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.0.0
|Oct 11, 1995
|Discrete Stop Button in toolbar; Collaborative Sessions; Advanced Hotlist Manager; Internal support for [[.wav]] sound files; Internal .au support removed; Printing improvements
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|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.1.0
|Mar 14, 1996
|Support for client-side image maps; Support for Kodak [[Photo CD]] (.pcd) image format
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|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.1.1
|Mar 25, 1996
|Fixed inline JPEGs not working with inline Kodak Photo CD images
|-
|style="background-color:#9370db;color:#ffffff" |'''{{center|3.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|3.0
|Jan 7, 1997
|Final Release
|-
|}

=== NCSA Mosaic for Macintosh ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Series
! style=width:6.5em | Version
! style=min-width:7em | Release date
! Notes & features
|-
|rowspan=4 style="background-color:#99ccff;" |'''{{center|1.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|1.0
|Nov 10, 1993
|Background color is white by default (differing from X and Windows versions)
|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|1.0.1
|Nov 29, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|1.0.2
|Dec 17, 1993
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|-
|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|1.0.3
|Jan 27, 1994
|Fixed serious crashes; Improved speed
|-
|rowspan=22 style="background-color:#0066ff;color:#ffffff" |'''{{center|2.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 1
|Jun 10, 1994
|Support for forms and tables; Users can now enter URLs directly into the address bar and press return to load them (URL bar is hidden by default); Background color is now gray by default (like X and Windows versions); Support for <code>&lt;S&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;SUP&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;SUB&gt;</code>; Reload button; New Hotlist interface
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 2
|Jun 21, 1994
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 3
|Jul 12, 1994
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 6
|Jul 26, 1994
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 8
|Sep 16, 1994
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 alpha 17
|Nov 14, 1994
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 1
|Mar 6, 1995
|Inline JPEGs; Support for <code>mailto:</code> links
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 2
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 3
|Mar 15, 1995
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 4
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 5
|Apr 6, 1995
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 6
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|HTML Parser is much faster; Throbber globe wires now display moving arrows and yellow ball proportional to percent of page loaded; Support for <code>&lt;CENTER&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;BIG&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;SMALL&gt;</code>, and <code>IMG</code> tag <code>ALIGN=LEFT</code>/<code>RIGHT</code> attributes
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 7
|Apr 27, 1995
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 8
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|Support for <code>&lt;P ALIGN&gt;</code>; Image alignment improvements
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 9
|May 5, 1995
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 10
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|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 11
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 12
|Jun 1, 1995
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 13
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|Support for background images
|-
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|2.0 beta 14
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|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.0.0
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|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|2.0.1
|Sep 28, 1995
|Fixed some table rendering bugs
|-
|rowspan=5 style="background-color:#9370db;color:#ffffff" |'''{{center|3.x}}'''
|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|3.0.0 beta 1
|Apr 15, 1996
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|3.0.0 beta 2
|Apr 25, 1996
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|3.0.0 beta 3
|Jul 30, 1996
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|style="background-color:#FFCC80;"|3.0.0 beta 4
|Sep 12, 1996
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|style="background-color:#6cde71;"|3.0
|Jan 7, 1997
|Final Release - Nested tables; Removed frames support that was present in 3.0.0 betas
|-
|}