Regarding web semantics...

I spend a lot of my job working with standards - Australian standards, British standards, European and international standards. They are there for a reason, an important one - commonality.

If everyone follows the standards - in our case browser manufacturers, web coders, designers, wysiwyg editors, software houses, everything is fine, life is easy, things work as they should.

If people do not follow the standards, then we end up with issues like Internet Explorer see more 6 (and 7 and 8), Netscape Navigator, code that does not work, proprietary code, code that cannot be read by site readers, the list goes on. There will not be one web coder here that does not cringe when you say Internet Explorer 6 - it is the biggest headache of the modern web - and all because it does not follow modern standards.

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