CSS is the classical example of "Somebody beat us to it, so now we have to take it, make it elephantine and scream at everybody who doesn't like it", as applied to text formatting in HTML. After all, Netscape did a lot of stuff before it was actually standardized...that accounts somewhat for the compatibility mess, but damn, we needed *something* to work with.
/W3C rant
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Katy: Can I have the skill 'drive car off bridge and have parachute handy'?
Justin: It's kind of a limited skill.
Greg: Depends on how often you drive off bridges.
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