>Some good points, to be sure. Here's (something of) a counterpoint:
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlaceThe old dream of going platform-independent, right? C is already some decades old, I believe - and yet, people are searching for this "holy grail".
The browser can manage platform-independence in theory. What bothers me is that in actual practice, many Web sites seem to be designed specifically for Internet Explorer. Of course, this doesn't mean that you
have to develop that way, it is just that that tends to occur in practice.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
