NCSA Mosaic for MS Windows User Guide: Customizing

Document

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.)

Home Page

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