> In my profession, no one gives a rats ass if our code
> is according to web standards.
I think a big part of that is because these so-called "standards" aren't as clearly superior to other ways of doing things as they are popularity contests. If there was the equivalent of Strunk & White for code, it would be different; but no such thing exists. Most of these "standards" are just whatever someone happened to write up in book form.
Further, none of the vendors involved think that standards are of much importance either: witness the phenomenon called "Does this work in your browser?" ...
That's not a standard worth caring about.
/jordan