Those of you who are young enough may not realize this is Tim Berners-Lee's nightmare -- in which the Web disintegrates into a multitude of factions, each using

Those of you who are young enough may not realize this is Tim Berners-Lee's nightmare -- in which the Web disintegrates into a multitude of factions, each using a different browser. "Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -- Tim Berners-Lee. I think by describing this technical Balkanization as an artifact of a quaint past, Berners-Lee may have been overly optimistic.