I know I lost this argument sometime in 2004, but it'd be nice
if people stopped trying to control where everything goes.
A recurring source of amusement (or frustration?) in the CIWA newsgroups back in the 90s was the young web designers whose questions began with "How do I force".
I never was able to determine if the decrease in the amount of these questions during the early 2000s was due to the decreasing popularity of Usenet or the increasing popularity of Flash.
...But that's the point of the WWW. You don't know what resolution or browser or OS the user has. You don't know if they even have a screen.
I know I lost this argument sometime in 2004, but it'd be nice if people stopped trying to control where everything goes.