Okay, okay, I know there is now a mad rush to do cool stuff with the new frame support found in Netscape Communications Corporation's newest browser, Netscape 2.0 (which, as I write this, I am doing the totally stupid exercise of downloading beta version 6a of onto a dorm lab PC, which it will probably crash). I agree that the frame support of this new browser software is interesting, and that it makes rather cool-looking things possible. I give as examples the following frame-supported sites (with the caveat that the frame-support seems to wax and wane with what feedback the authors get from their accessers, and probably thier personal moods): (As I expected, Netscape Navigator 2.0 beta 6 failed to properly load. 35 minutes wasted. Oh well.) I hear all around me how this Navigator 2.0 is going to be standard and all that, and I read stuff like this:

            WELCOME TO THE ANCESTRAL LANDS OF PETER "JOEBOB" BREEN

   [INLINE] If you're not looking at this page on Netscape 1.22N,it will
   laugh at you.

   This page will soon be in Netscape 2.0 vision(TM). I may be nasty
   about it and not keep up this old one, as I don't know of anyone who
   can't get their hands on this revolutionary new product...Tell me what
   you think.

		("http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~breenpc/")
I, admittedly, use Netscape 1.12 or 1.22 (depending on whether I am at a Mac or a PC; the released version has a different number on different platforms) both when designing and when viewing my pages. If the folks at Residential Student Computing decide to put 2.0 on Lurch-Fester-Gomez-Morticia-Pugsley (the dorm lab file servers), then I'll be using 2.0, I guess. But I keep in mind that, unlike the suppositions of some people, not everyone is using the same browser, particularly not Navigator 2.0. Some people at times (or all the time) are restricted (by their own or their university's resources) to just simple textual browsers, such as Lynx (from the University of Kansas), which does not support either images or tables, let alone frames. I have access to Lynx, and I have viewed all the files on my home page using it. While I admit they look better on Netscape than on Lynx, they show up as something, which some of the frame-support-requiring pages do not. I have tried to either refrain from using tables or warn potential accessers to their presence, just as the people above do on their pages with respect to frame support. My goal with this page is to have fun. Plain and simple, that is my primary goal. However, I also want to make my page available to "as wide an audience as possible," to quote the Lynx documantation. Further, I want those people who do visit my page to come away with a reasonable idea of who I am and what I am like, much as I want people who see the peopletrace files to get a good idea of who those people are, at least as seen through my eyes. I will never reduce this page to something only viewable from the latest and most sensational software from one company. I have modified all my documents, in fact, and eliminated <b> and <i> tags in favor of the more-inclusive <strong> and <em> tags, respectively. On Netscape, they look the same. This doesn't mean that I have no Netscape extension tags; the text, link, vlink, and bgcolor attributes to the <body> tag are all Netscape extensions, according to Sandia, and those were vital for me to create my color schemes (which Lynx users can't see anyway since all they see is dichrome text). As always, if any accesser has a problem with something on any of my pages, mail me and let me know.
Jason Elliot Benda -- 23 January 1996 -- 17:25 CST
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