CSS is a bit of a hobby horse, no? The specifications and implementations have matured considerably over the past few years, making the ugly hacks of yore unnec

CSS is a bit of a hobby horse, no? The specifications and implementations have matured considerably over the past few years, making the ugly hacks of yore unnecessary. If you can afford a somewhat degraded experience on IE7, the experience of writing CSS can be pleasurable and hassle-free. As to JavaScript: it has also seen massive improvements, but I'd like to emphasize a different point: namely that JavaScript's quirks, while annoying, are hardly arcane. They are very well known, and ably covered by any respectable introduction to the language. Most have established workarounds that are trivial to master (always providing the optional radix parameter to parseInt, for example), and the existence of excellent linters like jslint and jshint (the latter a community-driven fork of the former) makes it trivially easy to remember to do the right thing.