... but, it makes a difference because:

- Eventually (like say in the next few years, from what I'm reading) most of the browsers will defer to the new standard of XHTML - transitional, most likely - and all the stuff we learned to "get away with" in HTML quirks mode (hey, that's *their* word for it, not mine, LOL) will be broken. Ouch.

- Maybe easy *was* best - at least until the masses came online, and demanded more "experience" from the net. Originally, the web was just text. No imaging, no tables, no fonts. It was all courier monospaced text. Period. Some people got pretty fancy with that text - there were all kinds of folks coming up with ways to turn letters, numbers and punctuation into artform. But I digress. Web technology is still YOUNG. When I got on it 10-12 years ago, it had only just begun to emerge from a text-based repository, into an interactive experience. In the next three or four years it exponetially grew. And the diversity and possibilities with it. It made places like this *possible.* I just got this image: 8-track tapes vs CDs. No one would suggest we return to the earlier technology. Not when we've got such an effective replacement, eh? And it will continue to evolve, and those of us (like web designers) who want to help create it, will have to keep up with the times, or I suspect, be left in the dust - and frustrated.

Ladee