Jeffrey Zeldman: Inventing Something New on the Planet

This is a very good interview. the best part is the following quote:

what’s really going to drive standards awareness in the next months is the release of IE8. For the first time, IE will no longer support “IE-only” websites by default. Instead, it will support standards by default. Think about that. If you’re a developer, and you’ve somehow managed to remain completely unaware of standards-based design, your IE-only website won’t work in IE. Wow Right? So what will you do?

If you plan to have a career, you’ll start learning about standards-based design fast. IE8 will support old-fashioned IE-only sites if you insert a tag in the head of each web page instructing the browser to do so, but that’s merely to protect old sites; it’s not a strategy you can pursue if you intend to create new sites.

That’s the big news where browsers and standards adoption are concerned.

via Jeffrey Zeldman: Inventing Something New on the Planet.