![]() ![]() Not so, said Berners-Lee, pointing out that “NCSA’s (released) Mosaic for X handles embedded images in the hypertext, as does O’Reilly’s (unreleased) Viola.” The very next message on the mailing list was from Berners-Lee, who was responding to someone complaining that HTML didn’t have multimedia capabilities. ![]() In any case, after multiple further messages on NCSA Mosaic Version 1.0 via NCSA It’s almost the default now for browser companies to set standards on the Web - a consortium of browser vendors called WHATWG is in charge of the HTML standard today, which the W3C follows. In many ways, he set the trend for browser companies to take the lead in web innovation. But note that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) didn’t yet exist in 1993, so Andreessen probably felt he had no choice but to implement embedded images himself and wait for the IMG standard to arrive later. It took much longer for the IMG tag to become a standard it wasn’t included in the W3C’s HTML specification until November 1995. “This is required functionality for X Mosaic we have this working, and we’ll at least be using it internally.” This all happened before Andreessen’s famous message in Up till this point, web browsers were text-based - you could add a text link that pointed to an image file, but it would open in a separate window.Īndreessen brashly tells the mailing list that NCSA has already implemented embedded images in X Mosaic: KUTGW everyone…”Īndreessen sent progress reports to Mosaic 1.0, Including Embedded Images There is a lot of cross-fertilisation going on, which is very good. “Every new browser is sexier than the last. A follow-up message ended with this note of encouragement: He praised the new browser for having “a lot of practical things which real uses want - like mail and print and a bookmarks and stuff.” He had some feature requests and bug reports, but overall seemed impressed. The first to reply to Andreessen’s announcement was the Web’s inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, who put copies of the X Mosaic files onto the CERN server. Among “future capabilities” he listed multimedia and a “3D/immersive interface.” The multimedia would come soon enough, but we’re still waiting for the 3D/immersive interface - a.k.a. The X signified that it was built for the X Window System, which meant that it only worked on a few platforms - notably, not yet including Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh.Īndreessen, a student at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, listed out the current capabilities of the browser, which included “document source- and URL-viewing windows” and a “hotlist capability” that was “persistent across sessions” (what we now call bookmarks). On 14 January 1993, Marc Andreessen put a call out on the He followed up on 23 January 1993 with the announcement of “alpha/beta version 0.5” of the browser, which he called X Mosaic. ![]()
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