HTML sucks

I hate HTML. Once upon a time, HTML was a way to format page content, so it would be readable and have the same general formatting on any kind of output device. You could read an HTML man page on your snazzy Sun 3/60 running sunview and using Mosaic, or sitting on your VT220 terminal using lynx. Simple.

Then the internet went commercial in 1992. Netscape and Microsoft began beating their chests over whose browser did more. Advertisers appeared. Pointy haired bosses knew they wanted to be on that interweb thing, and who cared how readable things were, those buttons needed to be blue!

Now, I want something simple. I want a nav bar on the left, and content on the right. I want them both to fill the page, and if I put too much crap in the nav bar, I want it to scroll. To be even pickier, I want a graphic at the top of the nav bar that doesn't scroll, but sits up at the top left and stares at you. I don't want to use FRAMES!

Is that so hard? Apparently so. Lots of things that work in one browser, or one version of another browser... nothing so far that works correctly everywhere.

I hate HTML.