I spent some time tonight pushing around store code and CSS for the new Daevlmakr site. Daevlmakr's moving closer to the space I want it to live in by leaps and bounds. My biggest trouble in the design process is Internet Explorer's broken CSS implementation.

I realized, while raining curses on MS for the thirteenth time in as many minutes, the tactics they utilize to break standards are similar in some ways to what the religions use to break secular power.

Both play somewhat by the rules until they have strength in numbers. Both then break a standard and turn it around to their own advantage: MS by forcing developers to deploy for and users to use their broken but widely accepted software as a matter of practicality, religion by forcing governance to respond to and individuals to deal with its broken but widely accepted mental code as a matter of practicality.

A majority has strength to enforce their dogma, but might doesn't make it right.

How do you fix a standard once it's broken for the majority of users? How do you fix a memetic model once it has infected the masses?

Supposedly, IE7 will fix Microsoft's poor CSS. Any suggestions for a fix on the other?