one of the nagging things on the lists is that markup id is not available until render time, this gets a lot of users hung up. the problem is that we use a counter inside the page to generate the unique id. what if instead we use a static counter, that will make markup ids unique across pages also. the only problem is that it will make the id counter increment faster, but with a Long we wont run out any time soon. we should also keep the id string as short as possible, maybe encode the integer using [0-9a-zA-Z] instead of just [0-9], or even to make it faster encode it into hex...
if no objections are raised i will make the change...will be nice to have a major improvement to go along with 1.3.2 anyways -igor
