One thing Mudcat has got going for it is that it runs on almost any platform. I use a variety of machines to access it - my post earlier today was made using a Windows 2000 machine and Firefox 2, this comes from a MacOS 9 one using iCab 2.9.9. I can't access Murdochspace on this machine at all (no loss) and if Mudcat got similarly dependent on Javascript and Flash I would almost never use it.