To make matters worse, in all of these you have to trash your code to bow to every browser's quirks. I *thought* the internet was supposed to solve that type of garbage; but I guess that since he wrote =Commodor 64 Basic V2.0= in the early eighties, Bill Gates still hasn't learned to play nice with the other children.

Two things. Bowing down the browsers quirks shouldn't be all blamed on the browser vendors, but mostly on the people writing webpages. If they just said "we only use standards", we wouldn't have the problems we have today. (Lesson, if you are a web programmer, it's up to you to fix this, not Bill Gates, not Netscape, Inc, not the W3C, not ISO. It's just you.).

Secondly, this tactics of "let's implement something else than the standard, see if we can lure web programmers to lock the users to a specific platform" was succesfully deployed by Netscape long before Bill Gates realized the Internet wouldn't go away if he'd ignored it. If you want to blame browser vendors for the current mess, blame Netscape, not Microsoft.

I hate Microsoft, but I probably hate Netscape more.

Abigail