So, as HTML 5 begins to spread beyond the academic discussion phase, and into the fringes of the Web design community, an all too typical culture clash has once again emerged. The perfectionists and pragmatists are publicly at it again.

But, there are a few things you can always take for granted in the world of Web design:

• there will always be that one browser that will make your dream design a nightmare to execute;
• the cache will never work in your favour when you need it to;
• if you could change that one piece of markup, everything would fall into place, but, of course, you can’t;
• the pragmatists always find a way around the puritans.