NCSA Mosaic for MS Windows User Guide: Customizing


Use this dialog box to specify many of your preferences for the display of documents viewed with Mosaic.

Inline Images
- Display Inline Images
- displays inline images (images within a document). When not checked, all images--including background images--are not displayed.
- 3D Borders
- displays three-dimensional borders around inline images
Background Color
The Background Color button opens a color palette dialog box where you select a new background color for the document display area. The default background is grey.
Miscellaneous
- 3D Rules
- shows a horizontal rule (i.e., the <HR> HTML tag) as a three-dimensional image. The <HR> tag displays as black line if unchecked.
- Round List Bullets
- displays a three-dimensional bullet before each item in an unordered list; uses a dash (-) before each item if unchecked.
- Send Referrer Field
- sends to a server the URL of the document where a link originated. (This information is used by servers to determine server load values from specific hypertext documents.)
Enter your the URL of your home page, which is loaded on startup if the Autoload box is checked. If Autoload is unchecked, a blank page is displayed.
- Use Current
- adds the current document's URL as the new home page
See "Changing Your Home Page" on page 6-5 for additional information.
Advanced Tags
- Use <BODY> Attributes
- uses HTML 3.0 <BODY> tag attributes (i.e., as a background texture image); if Display Inline Images is disabled, the background image is not shown
- Use <META> tag
- uses HTML 3.0 <META> tag if checked; if unchecked, no <META> tags are ignored
Display
- Display Text While Loading
- displays the document as it is being received
- Display Images While Loading
- displays inline images as they are received
- Disable Display While Loading
- waits until the entire document and all inline images are received before displaying them

