As guilty as I am of pasting these at the bottom of my sites, I think they will probably be similar to the Netscape Now buttons of the early web. It’s kinda like repping your hometown or team or whatever. Yes we rep XHTML/CSS because we all believe it’s the right thing to do; we know it is the right thing.

In my last post I talked about the entry fee for getting a job at my company required being up to par on web standards. Yes, we recommend one uses firefox with the web developer toolbar as well. Oh and there is also the useful Measure-It! extension. With all of these tools in one’s pocket, the question becomes, why haven’t some people caught on?

Microsoft Internet Explorer. This would require an entry in itself.

Perhaps one day all sites will be coded in valid css/xhtml and the validation links at the bottom will seem innappropriate and unecessary. Either way, Microsoft has a lot of making up to do to those of us in the web space. Perhaps they could make their browser standards compliant, and make something as appropriate as validation links go away.

Or they will just be Microsoft, and we will have to fight the good fight for the long run. I hope they come around.

(Checking out IE7 soon, somewhere I saw a dual install for both IE6 and IE7, so what happens to my IETab extension??)

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