Question: What browser should I use for these pages?

Answer: The answer straight away is FIREFOX. To some it may sound like a surprise exspecting it to be Internet Explorer. However, Internet Exlorer has long been a "forced" monopoly. While waiting for Internet Explorer 7, browsers like Opera and Firefox were constantly improved with great features like tabbed browsing, small screen rendering and plugins like sessionsaver, to mention only a few. Therefore, the first choice and principal testing ground for this site is FIREFOX. This should not be any inconvenient for you. FIREFOX is entirely free, not even ads, and therefore there is good reason for having it as the reference browser.
  

Question: Minimum resolution required?

Answer: Taking into account recent pricing levels for TFT screens, a 1024x768 is some kind of minimum you can get these days. Most TFT screens even offer you 1280x1024 pixels or more resolution, these days. Therefore, the standard resolution required to view this section of the website is 1024x768 pixels. For the panoramas, as they are of exceptionally high quality, the minimum resolution is 1280x1024 pixels. However, there is a version that supports high-end screens with resolutions of 1920x1200 pixels for all those who can claim to have a screen capable of this resolution.

Question: What about Javascript?

Answer: Javascript is a useful scripting language which allows for some nice features on websites. This website does use javascript, especially for roll-over effects, newstickers and so on. As to the knowledge of the author, none of these scripts is harmful at all nor does it contain any kind of exploit code. 

Question: Plug-ins for the browser?

Answer: Well, in order to enjoy this site best you will need a couple of plug-ins. The first and most common one is Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash. This plug-in is usually supplied with browsers, but it is a good idea to keep it up to date. Another important plug-in is the Apple Quicktime plug-in. Quicktime is a great tool with a lot of features. One of the greatest ones is the possibility to create panoramas for browsers. You can download it for free from the Apple website. 

Question: Does this site collect statistics?

Answer: Every website you visit in the web does collect statistics. There are logfiles and based on those statistics is collected. However, all that is done in an anonymous way. The only purpose of statistics is to determine what kind of content you, the visitors, like most. Statistics helps to determine what kind of content visitors are interested most. Of course it does not collect any kind of personal data. With respect to the option of registration there is of course some kind of collection of personal data. This personal data is being treated in a very confidential way and the only reason it is being collected at all, is of legal nature. Legislation requires in some way that e.g. post published on a website shall be supervised 

Question: Quicktime fails or crashes!

Answer: Sometimes it may happen that the Quicktime plug-in causes errors. This only occurs in few cases when a certain version of the plug-in matches with a certain version of the browser. Unlikely it may be, it requires you to restart your computer. The actual reason for that kind of error could never be determined exactly but it exists and the only solution to it is to upgrade Quicktime and your browser. According to tests, it is an error that occurs to less than 1% of all visitors.   

Question: How about cookies?

Answer: Cookies have long been in the focus of data protection activists. It is indeed true that some of the most successful online shops use them in order to identify clients. Based on the cookie, together will additional data collected, it is possible to provide the visitor with specific offers and it is also possible to do research on the browsing behaviour. This site clearly does not collect any personal information nor does it create any kind of track of user behaviour. Why? Well, there is no reason to do so and the visitors privacy is respected just as we expect the visitor to respect copyright issues too. 

Question: What about user registration?

Answer: In the "Mallorca section" of this website you can register as a user. Doing so will enable you in the future to see unseen content before anyone else can see it. You may also have the opportunity to vote and review hotels & restaurants. Step by step there will be more content for registered members. As a registered member, you can actually post content on this website, which requires to collect some data about you, in case a user might abuse the ability to contribute to this site.