i'm having trouble reconciling a benevolent god and the vagaries of cross-platform CSS-based layout.

i test out layouts on local sites i build on my PowerBook and try to see where things fall apart in my three favorite Mac OS X browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1.3, OmniWeb 4.1 "sneakypeek", and Chimera v0.13 (a Cocoa implementation of a Gecko-based browser). i also try to check for problems with IE6 for Windows via Win2K on Virtual PC (if you think that sounds like a lot of fun, try it yourself -- a 233MHz PowerBook G3 Series is not the ideal platform for this kind of thing.)

even when you try to keep things simple (perhaps especially when you try to keep things simple) the slightest changes cause problems in one browser or on one platform or another. nothing ever just works except the <P> tag. it blows a hole in my day and seems like a total waste of time.