xmosaic-1.2
I took a few hours, downloaded xmosaic-1.2 and got it working on Max OS X as part
of an article I was writing - the code is here in case you want to experience what the
web was like in 1993 :)
Demonstration
Here is a YouTube Video demonstrating the application.
Building xmosaic
The xmosaic-1.2 package can be built on a growing number of platforms, but each has its own
pre-requisites and dependencies. On all platforms, you will need a C compiler such as gcc.
Pre-requisites by platform
Ubuntu Linux
Install the required dependencies before building:
$ apt-get install build-essential libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxpm-dev libmotif-dev imagemagick
Mac OS X (10.6+)
On 10.8 and later, download and install XQuartz:
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
On all versions, download and install OpenMotif:
http://www.ist-inc.com/motif/download/index.html
OpenMotif installs into /usr/OpenMotif
Solaris 9 (32-bit)
The following Solaris packages need to be installed:
SUNWxwice (X Window System Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Components)
SUNWxwplt (X Window System platform software)
SUNWxwrtl (X Window System & Graphics Runtime Library Links in /usr/lib)
Compiling the code
A top-level Makefile with platform targets is provided and recommended for all builds:
$ make linux # Build for Linux
$ make osx # Build for Mac OS X
$ make solaris9 # Build for Solaris 9
The original NCSA README and the subsidiary Makefiles provide more details.
To start xmosaic:
$ cd src
$ ./xmosaic &
Pre-built binaries
Here is a compiled Binary Macintosh Distribution that should work on Max OS X 10.6 or later (with the pre-requisites installed).
I am not an expert in Mac OS X application distribution so I don't have any kind of one-click installer simply because I don't have the skills to make such an installer.
Changes from original NCSA release
I have made very few changes to let it browse a bit more of the web reasonably:
It uses HTTP/1.1 instead of HTTP 1.0 so it can see virtual hosted sites
It uses sips for OS X to convert all images to gif to give best chance of seeing them. Under Linux it uses imagemagick.
It ignores ampersand hex values as those were not invented yet
It hides content between script and style tags as those were not invented yet
It also is pretty chatty in the console while it is running - I am still working on the code and want to see if it breaks.
