Webdesign is now simpler
Back in 1999, I worked as a webdesigner, and the job was hard. Dreamweaver helped a lot, but Netscape and IE made my work impossible with their little market share war. It was an impossible mission to create a site compatible with both browsers. Solution usually was an "IE-only" icon.
In 2004, as a junior programmer, the HTML-compatibility problem morphed into JS/CSS-compatibility. No more ugly "blinks" or "marquees", but IE, Mozilla and the brand-new Firefox still didn't match.
Now, with Safari, Opera, Chrome, Firefox, IE and dozens of minor browsers, I could feel like Dante myself, but thanks God because "compliance is law" now. After twelve f***ing years, I only need a couple of workaround to achieve full cross-browser compliance using a Zen-like technique!
Together with Wicket and JS frameworks (jQuery), it got really easy to make a Java website in my spare time!