Here is the main reason. Now, they're not real links, so please don't try clicking on them. Also, try not to let the multiple cursors fool you, they're part of the gif's...

This is taken from the Netscape version of my page:


Note the underlines, the annoying dotted line and the way it jinks around the italicised letters, but most of all the crappy little finger-pointer thing.

Now this is the IE version:


See? No underlines, boxes or arrows where you don't want them. Just plain simple text. And it is ordinary text. The javascript to make them into links is unbelievably simple. If I could produce the same effect in Netscape I would do it happily, but unfortuantely, the only way to do it would be to double the amount of script, and EVEN THEN it still wouldn't look the same.

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