Is anyone else a bit slightly miffed at having to add all the different prefix variations for advanced CSS3 declarations yo?

Surely all these cool new browsers that are all for progress and sharing and open standards and the like could get together and say (something like):

"Hey FireFox. It's Safari here. How was your Christmas? You get that sheep you wanted? Anyway. Just to let you know, we've decided that we're going to start all our advanced CSS3 test declarations with -beta- and we thought it would be a good idea for all of us to do the same. You know, to keep developers' CSS manageable and save a few kilobytes hither and thither. Oh, and can you pass on the info to Opera and the others too? Thanks. Bye!"

A post in which I discuss a widely used "background-image instead of text" technique, given a little tweaking, to work when CSS and/or images are disabled.

Note: If you wish to skip my (possibly unnecessary and yawn-inducing) pre-amble and get straight to my "background-image instead of text" technique, skip to "A solution for now" :)