"IE's version of HTML has become the de facto standard"
Not where I work it hasn't. We use XHTML to the W3C standards.
Admittedly, we still have to code around IE's crappy implementation all the time, but we work from a position of coding it correctly then tweaking it for IE where necessary, not coding to IE's implementation then tweaking for other browsers.
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"IE's version of HTML has become the de facto standard"
Not where I work it hasn't. We use XHTML to the W3C standards.
Admittedly, we still have to code around IE's crappy implementation all the time, but we work from a position of coding it correctly then tweaking it for IE where necessary, not coding to IE's implementation then tweaking for other browsers.