top-aligned images as side-bars...

[William Shipley]

>Isn't this more a question of an undefined specification (having two
> align specified in a single tag) being handled in a implementation
> specific way (netscape chose to handle this case specifically).

Well, no, it's not.  It's a question of the specification very clearly  
forbidding what Netscape does, just like what they do with comments.   
Netscape allowing this forces all web browser authors to emulate their  
broken behaviour, which erodes the nice side effects of the standard.

I don't mind Netscape extending the standard in ways that normal  
browsers can ignore or not, I do mind them going against the standard and  
forcing authors to decide to go with the standard and put up with  
thousands of bug reports (as we did in our implementation of comments in  
1.0), or go against the standard and be considered a traitor to the  
ideals of the web.

-Wil