HTML/CSS

While working on the code for the photo galleries for this Web site, noticed that my photos didn't always look right in Internet Explorer.  Given all the headaches that Internet Explorer has caused me over the years, I figured it was just IE performing poorly.  Little did I know that IE had the ability to look just as good as Firefox, Safari or Chrome but that some designer back at Microsoft had saddled it with an Idiotic Default Setting.

We've all had to do it: the client wants things a little lighter/darker/bolder/slimmer/whatever and I'm up late at night search-and-replacing RGB values or color hex values throughout my CSS and JavaScript.  Yuck!  If you're a good programmer, you at least used variables in your JavaScript for those times that you needed to do styling.  But there's nothing you can do about CSS.  Or is there?