Yeah, but that learning curve is a real bitch.

As much as I hate HTML I never struggled with it quite as much as I struggled trying to feel productive with Silverlight 2/3 for the first 3 months.

But as you say, once you're finally over the hump, it makes you really despise the utter stupidity of HTML and the w3c's design by committee.

The last time I used it, the styling had some flaws. Trying to set an element's top and bottom border to one colour, with the left and right borders set to another was impossible, as you couldn't address individual sides, only the whole element's border.

The 'fix' was to create two line elements over the borders you wanted coloured differently.