Please!
It's really nice that we've got all these new features on Netscape 3 and all but I'm sure we'd all feel a lot more comfortable about using them, on any platform, if the browser didn't crash the system every 32 seconds.
I understand the desire for progress but we have so many new features that just implementing what we've already got is a full time job. Designing a single page which can be viewed with any browser and remain readable and also implement interesting features and look good is nearly impossible.
Take, for example, http: //www.mtwilson.edu/Tour/100inch/ . It has imagemaps... which we implemented with Java, because we wanted status-line messages. But not everyone has Java, so we implemented client-side imagemaps. But not everyone has client-side imagemaps, so we implemented server-side imagemaps. And then, not everyone has frames, so we implemented noframes. But then, not everyone has graphics, so to support text based browsers, we had to check to make sure the page is readable in lynx, and possibly implement alt-tags.
Nobody can use all of the potential features of today's web browsers. Nobody can even keep track of all of the features of today's web browsers. If all of the browser software developers stopped work on new features today and went to work on fixing their million bugs and making their software not crash the system all the time, everyone would benefit.
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