How do you sell Web Standards?
Don't sell. Show.
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Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.
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CSS and IE 6.
Did you know that IE6/Win does not know the difference b/w dotted and dashed - view this post in Mozilla to see how it's really supposed to look. Maybe their next release will be more standards-compliant. This happens even with standards-compliant mode turned on.
Mornings are great again.
The station I found yesterday DOES broadcast Mark and Brian - awesome! It's actually one of the best internet radio broadcasts I've ever heard (besides the network drops), they play music during the commercials to get around the internet radio issue.
What's new in XHTML 2.0.
Rick Salsa seems to sum up "what's new" in XHTML 2.0 a lot better than my previous post.
Text zoom in IE6/Windows.
I changed this site to use font-size: 70% from font-size: 11px so you could resize the fonts on this site using your browser. This is a workaround for what Zeldman describes today.
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All modern browsers now offer Text Zoom or Page Zoom but one: IE/Win. Which is, of course, the most-used browser on earth. The IE/Windows team has done great things, but implementing Text Zoom is not one of them.
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To me, changing your css to use a percentage value rather than a pixel value (i.e. 12px -> 80%) seems like a pretty easy workaround.
XHTML 2.0 Working Draft
Did you know that XHTML 2.0 is already in the works? As you all throw up your hands and say, "Geez we were just getting to know XHTML 1.0 (and 1.1)," I'm here to tell you that there haven't been many changes since XHMTL 1.1. 
Here is an example XHTML 2.0 page.
Why should you develop with web standards
Zeldman turned me on to it. Web Standards for Hard Times is a great read for anyone that is (1) starting to develop a new website or (2) wondering why their site looks different in different browsers. The best thing to know:
Many developers still don't realize that newer browsers look for a
DOCENGINE tag at the top of each page, and will change the way they
behave in response to it. Without the correct tag, browsers can take
your standards-compliant page and render it all wrong.