the w3c are the real bitches (Score 1)

The w3c could have avoided millions of man-years of developer pain by simply getting a little backbone and bullying browser providers that aren't supporting the standards (oh, yeah, they call them recommendations).

That, and perhaps some reference renderings of CSS, (X)HTML, etc. So that alternate interpretations of the standards are snuffed out well before web-developers have to code for them individually.