We are talking about profesionals.. or so called profesionals who pretend to know what there doing and produce a website that only works on some browsers.. thats lazy when with a bit more effort they could produce a website that works on all browsers..
Thats why we are reffering to them as developers... we aint really on about personal sites made with a wysiwyg toy
Also the point quite rightly being made by the other side is that if IE was to conform to the rules then you would find it harder to make a bad website because IE lets you produce a bad one while browsers like netscape doesnt.. hence why i use netscape for development