== A CSS limitation: it's not supported by _lynx_

That CSS isn't supported by _lynx_ may sound like a peculiar thing to
call a limitation of CSS, but it does have one important consequence:
~~If I want _lynx_ to format something right, I can't use CSS~~.

(Well, I suppose I can use CSS in addition to non-CSS methods. But I
have to have the non-CSS methods.)

As strange as it may sound, I still value looking good in _lynx_ (and
_links_, a related text mode browser). (And in Konqueror/Safari. And
even in Internet Explorer, although sometimes it's tempting. I have
pretty much given up on Netscape 4, though, except to the extent that
it's _lynx_-compatible.)

One case where this comes up in WanderingThoughts is the day marker
strings (the centered bold '2006-04-20' and so on) that mark the start
of a day's posts. The morally proper way to do these is to put them
in <div class="daymarker"> and then apply the centering and bolding via
CSS. But that would look crappy in _lynx_, so instead I use the older,
deprecated way:

> <p class="daymarker" align=center> <b> 2006-04-20 </b> </p>

(The class is currently unused.)

These days I'm a web design pragmatist; I'm more interested in looking
right than in doing something in the currently 'blessed as proper' way
(especially as the currently approved way keeps *changing*). I *prefer*
to do things in the proper way, because I'm geeky enough that it makes
me feel good, but if the proper way conflicts with pragmatics the
proper way loses. For me, intellectual purity is not worth looking ugly.