It was on three floppy disks. Viewing a little text and a few graphics, and letting a Java applet run is not some gargantuan programming task. It should all be possible in 500K of well-written code, tops. Not 20MB of elephantiasis. There's been enough time to iron out the kinks and slim down the code.
Trouble is, nobody's doing it.
This software is pathetic. It fits perfectly within their vision of World Domination Through Bloatware. I don't like the idea that the Internet is influenced by any of these goofballs. As for the groundswell of underdog support for Netscape, it's not about good technology, it comes back to that soap opera. I think it's time for the public to forget about Microsoft, forget about Netscape, forget about everything but having some software that whizzes.