I agree with 1999-me about the web

In 1999 in answer to a comment that read: Check it out if you don’t believe me. I thought that cross-browser compatibility meant that everything looked the same in both browser, but I guess not. Here’s what I wrote: Cross-browser compatibility does NOT mean that everything looks the same everywhere. It means that I have a site which is usable on any browser. Let me illustrate my point: http://www.artlung.com/smorgasborg/otherviews/MAC_ICAB.GIF http://www.artlung.com/smorgasborg/otherviews/MAC_LYNX.GIF http://www.artlung.com/smorgasborg/otherviews/MAC_MSIE45.GIF http://www.artlung.com/smorgasborg/otherviews/MAC_NN3.GIF http://www.artlung.com/smorgasborg/otherviews/MAC_NN451.GIF http://www.artlung.com/smorgasborg/otherviews/WEBTV.GIF …These are all the same page. These do not “look the same in both browsers” – but they all represent the information on my page fine. Some have quirks, some do stylesheets, some don’t – but they all work. That’s a benefit of valid HTML. It’s really weird to…