The problem with standards

“Recently, there has been an increased focus on the standards (or lack thereof) that helped popularize and commoditize the Web. From a grassroots level, developers have begun to air their frustration with the lack of basic interoperability between browsers — or even versions of the same browser. ‘Why is this so hard?’ they ask. ‘Why do I have to spend so much time getting my pages to work on every browser?'”