Acid 3 doesn't have to make IE fully compliant in this or the next decade to be a good influence. It's bringing the non-IE browsers into line remarkably quickly

Acid 3 doesn't have to make IE fully compliant in this or the next decade to be a good influence. It's bringing the non-IE browsers into line remarkably quickly, which means web developers can concentrate on IE. And from the large (though insufficient) improvements from IE 5 to 7, we can see that Microsoft is actually responding to the competition -- slowly, of course, but surely faster than if every other browser were as quirky as theirs.