A Dream Deferred

• The promise: a Web where you could write once and have it displayed in interoperable implementations
• The reality: market-driven "innovations" that pushed browsers further and further apart
• The result: developers going crazy and pulling hundred-hour weeks trying to write code that had consistent results in "both browsers"
• Things We Tried:
  • "This page best viewed with..."
  • "Please change your settings to..."
  • Code forking