Dan,
> IE...when free will is taken, so to is freedom.
>
> > So should I be mad at Netscape for allowing me to write bad code,
> > or IE for
> > not allowing me to write bad code??? LOL
Actually, it's a standards issue. The W3C HTML 4.01 specification states
plainly that id and name tokens must begin with a letter [1].
James Aylard
1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-name