I join you in damning both Microsoft and Netscape, Max, but perhaps for different reasons.

I think the idea of HTML was that there would be a world-wide standard and that extensions wouldn't be made without the standards being changed accordingly. MS and NS seem to have moved the language to the corporate battlefield--each fighting to outdo the other with non-standard extensions. There are very few sites that can be visited with, for example a text browser nowadays. This is a disadvantage for people with slow connections--OK so they can fork out and improve their gear; but it also is a disadvantage for some people with handicaps who can use a text browser much more easily than a mouse--hot key driven one. There are some sites that are useless with a text browser because they depend so much upon these extensions.

Now for the warm friendly closing paragraph. I often hook up to mudcat with a text browser when I have a slow connection. I can't, of course, see pictures and I couldn't use the chat room, but the basic functionality is there. Thanks for that, Max

Murray