“Please excuse the angry tone of this lecture. My hands still
hurt from hours of debugging reams of HTML and JavaScript that
supposedly works cross-browser.”
“If you believe everything you read, especially if everything
you read nowadays comes in some sort of punditry from the Web, you
already know the cry: Netscape is dead. Microsoft rules.”
“I’m here to tell you a little something. If you’re a web
developer, listen close:
It’s YOUR fault.”
“You look hurt. Why? This is what you wanted, right? After all,
it was you lamenting the fact that none of the cool tricks Internet
Explorer provides aren’t available in Netscape. It was you who
downloaded the beta of Netscape 6, watched in dismay as your
Dreamweaver-generated code fell apart, and immediately went to the
nearest BBS to proclaim your loyalty to Microsoft. It was you, who
nodded in agreement when one self-styled guru or another claimed
that the Mozilla project was a ghost ship with no captain at the
wheel.”