"No Netscape?", I hear you cry. "Whyever not, Uncle Joe?"

Simple. The whole point of HTML is that it's a cross-platform thing. It doesn't matter whether you're reading it on an Amiga, a PC, a Mac or a UNIX Box Of Doom, you should see the same thing. However, the Netscape corporation seems to have other ideas.

By setting up all the Netscape-specific features such as background pictures (which are, I will admit, quite a nice touch), animation and sodding blink, they seem to be getting away from the idea of HTML as a cross-platform page description language and more towards HTML as a thing you use to write stuff that looks nice on the Netscape corporation's products. I, amongst others, think that this is A Bad Thing. It's a bit like all the groovy extra features that Microsoft Network allows you to use in e-mail... as long as you're sending files within the Network. It looks, to me, like an attempt to impose a manufacturer's standard on a currently freeform (-ish) system.

Of course, I still use their products myself... Anyway, that's all.