Why Don't You Code for Netscape?
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/netscape/

Zeldman, Jeffrey
List Apart, A
2001

Abstract:

Long considered the Holy Grail of web design, 'backward compatibility' has its place; but at this point in web development history, shouldn’t we be more concerned about forward compatibility? ALA makes the case for authoring to web standards instead of browser quirks.