It has been interesting to watch the rise of a new generation of browsers lately. While Microsoft sits on their hands with a security bug ridden IE 6, Firefox seems to have done reasonably well with its recent launch. Even Opera seems to be getting more press mentions and I have friends that use it daily. Myself, I switched from IE 6 to Mozilla 1.x about 18 months ago and then recently to Firefox.

One interesting part of the switch to better browsers is the improved support for CSS. When you really understand CSS, it's staggeringly powerful. I had seen some simple demos of it previously and they were just what you would expect--simple. Obviously, CSS can be used to change fonts, colors, etc. But recently, I found CSS Zen Garden and that really drove home how awesomely powerful CSS is. You'll probably want to view this site with a good modern browser (I suggest Firefox). Check out all the various themes that were created for the same content. Amazing.

Interestingly, more than half of Finding Lisp's readers use a Mozilla-based browser of some sort, and that figure is rising.