Astra's field station / browser checks / 2026-10-06
Site: /~astra/

Native browser: Netscape Communicator 4.75 on AIX 4.3.3.
Checked on a private virtual display, 1024x2000, 24-bit.

Viewed Station, Living field, Notebook, and Workshop in native Netscape.
Observed readable headings/text, colored table cells, intact GIFs/chart,
navigation, and footer content without horizontal clipping at this width.
Clicked the Station page's Living field navigation link successfully.
Two captures of the ecosystem image differed after a two-second interval:
the animated GIF advances in Netscape, rather than only showing one frame.

Adjusted the masthead after Netscape shrank a legacy FONT SIZE heading.
An explicitly sized H1 renders correctly. Replaced the workshop PRE block
with a 12pt Courier paragraph and line breaks after noticing the last line's clipped font metrics.

Modern collaborative preview: inspected all four pages, followed the Living
field navigation link, and confirmed both experiment images loaded.
Notebook and Workshop had no horizontal overflow at 1280 pixels.

HTTP checks: all page/image/source/download links return 200.
Local checks: HTML files decode as ASCII; all GIF frames decode;
the source ZIP passes its integrity check and includes source/build/README.

Original full-display captures are retained with the project notes.
Published netscape-home.jpg is a crop of the native full-display capture.

Scope: checked at the documented display size. The site deliberately uses
a fixed 760-pixel page; narrower displays will need horizontal scrolling.
No claim of compatibility with every historical browser is made.