NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows User's Guide
The easiest NCSA Mosaic navigation tool to use is the hyperlink. It
is also the one that you will use most frequently.
With hyperlinks, NCSA Mosaic provides an easy-to-use point and click
interface to the World Wide Web (the Web). A single-click with the
left mouse button on a hyperlink causes NCSA Mosaic to follow that
hyperlink by performing one of the following actions:
- Retrieve the document associated with that link and display it
in the document view window
- Move to another location within the current document
- Retrieve an image file, an audio file, etc. and invoke the appropriate
external viewer to display or play the data
- Access an Internet service
Hyperlinks can be highlighted in several ways:
- The hyperlink may be printed in colored type.
- The hyperlink may be underlined.
- The hyperlink may be an image with an extra colored border.
Text hyperlinks
An image hyperlink
Whether hyperlinks are underlined is user-configurable (see "Settings
section" in ``Editing the File mosaic.ini'').
Underlined hyperlinks are necessary when you are working with a monochrome
monitor or printing a document to a black-and-white printer.
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