Costa Rica, Netscape Explanation

I had mixed feelings about making a Netscape-only site. Netscape has the following deficiencies:

Dog slow on Macintosh, even with native PowerMac version on PowerMac 8100.
Bugs in JPEG decompression that sometimes make large JPEGs unviewable (version 1.1). [If you are using Netscape 1.0, you'll find that the program crashes with some of my larger pages.]

I saw the following advantages:

more and more of my readers are dialing in over 14.4 or 28.8 modems; in-line JPEGs are 30% to 50% of the size of in-line GIFs and therefore transmission time can be greatly reduced.
HTML 2.0 is a horribly impoverished language that breaks an author's heart every time. Netscape's extensions are a little like putting a Band-Aid on a machine gun wound, but they are better than nothing. I've written more on the subject.
Netscape sets the de facto standards right now. Eventually all the other browsers will be forced to interpret the Netscape extensions, as indeed most have.

If you don't have Netscape, consider downloading it now. After all, it is mostly free.