Especially if you were doing anything clever with Javascript. You pretty much had to code from scratch for several versions of every browser. Some you could do

Especially if you were doing anything clever with Javascript. You pretty much had to code from scratch for several versions of every browser. Some you could do client-side and others would have to be rendered server-side. As poster above said, you would spend half your design time on getting the thing to look/run the same everywhere. Things are a lot closer now.