We are on the verge of two more browsers being released, IE8 and FF 3. I've tested FF3 (as it was very easy to install without screwing up my current configurations), and have read up on IE8. Both are aiming to be standards complient, FF 3 currently passes the Acid test, and IE 8 is reported to pass it.
Now here is the issue, IE 8 is not standard by default, you have to add a meta tag to your website saying it is compliant. The thought is that they didn't want the web broken by the new browser.
So here is my call to all developers... break the stinking web. When you develop a site, make it 100% compliant to the standards and let the users stuck on old software deal with it. We need to stop having to create hacks to work with the various versions of web browsers.
When I started out many years ago working in ASP I used GoLive; which my coworkers and I had two bits of fun with:
1. Had this saying: Be like Jesus, save often.
2. Called it GoDead due to its many crashes.
But GoLive was not standard compliant at all. Now that I do my development in Visual Studio I make sure that all my sites are standard compliant. So they should render perfectly in the new browsers.
But for those of you who develop websites, I repeat my plea: BREAK THE WEB.