Consider that the population of web browsers is both gaining features and loosing it. It's gaining featues in that more people are running newer browsers, yes. But more people are browsing the internet over cell phones, PDAs, and other devices that may have spotty or no support for thigs like js, frames, tables, and even images, and may be on connections all the way down to 14.4kbps or so.
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