What's Wrong With the Bleeding Edge Facilities

On the face of it, nothing - more extendable, powerful browsers.
On the other hand, HTML is so primitive today, adding a few bells and whistles isn't saying so much.
Even beyond extensions to the browser for displaying 'things', browsers are still stateless and allow arbitrary movement through an application.
Do all of your customers have browsers that support the features you code to?
What's coming next month? ... and what changes to existing bleeding edge facilities will break your code

Patrick J. Mueller (pmuellr@raleigh.ibm.com)
For the 1996 Smalltalk Solutions Panel on Smalltalk and the Web