Joel Spolsky wrote an article and again I feel like he is right all the way: web standards are a means to an end, not the end goal, sigh.
They (as in your wife) don’t give a flicking flick about your stupid religious enthusiasm for making web browsers which conform to some mythical, platonic “standard” that is not actually implemented anywhere. They don’t want to hear your stories about messy hacks. They want web browsers that work with actual web sites.
Martian Headsets | Joel Spolsky
And besides he has a point, he is also a very funny writer:
FireQx 3.0 treats snow as rain, because you need windshield wipers in the snow, Qxyzrhjjjjukltk 5.0 does not, because the programmer who worked on that feature lives in a warm part of Mars without snow and doesn’t have a driver’s license anyway. Yes, they have driver’s licenses on Mars.Martian Headsets | Joel Spolsky
If the last quote doesn’t make any sense to you, go and read the article: Martian Headsets by Joel Spolsky.