Good to know. It's still unfortunate that people use outdated versions of all of those browsers. How many times have you seen someone say, "FF3 sux I'm jus goin2 downgrade to 2.0! LOL!"? And let's not get started on which IE is still the most popular. Safari, Chrome, Opera? They own such a small percentage of the internet anyways, but a typical user of them will upgrade almost immediately, I assume?

It's annoying. The internet / technology advances so drastically, it's a shame that a high percentage of users are too stubborn to let it us move forward. Stop holding web developers back, and just use one of the latest browsers already.

So I suppose that I worded my previous statement wrong, as well as exaggerated a bit.. Instead, it should be, "It'll be another two or three years before developing in HTML 5 will be more beneficial than not. Maybe not because of the browsers specifically, but because of stubborn internet dinosaurs."

Also: As I have mentioned XHTML2 a few times.. Incase no one has heard, apparently they're dropping XHTML2 entirely, and they're going to focus on HTML5 instead. Good news, bad news? I don't know. I haven't read into it far enough to see if there are any strict rules in HTML 5 that won't allow tags to be left open, capitalized garbage code, etc. But I am all for ONE set of standards, rather than several..

XHTML was a diversion that really didn't need to happen. It was based on the XML hype that it was the panacea of data transfer. They could have just applied the rules to HTML 4.2 and said "Look, you need to close your tags now." If they are ditching it for a single standard than overall it will be good for everyone. It does appear that HTML 5 will be more semantic than XHTML with the introduction of header, footer, section, article, aside, hgroup and other tags to stop using the arbitrary div to structure a document. However it does appear that they are going back to the optional closing of elements so <br /> once again becomes <br>.

Best browser around!