Chris Wilson on the IE team blogs about the current thread on the HTML WG where he fights his corner for maintaining backwards compatibility in IE against becoming more standards compliant. It's a good post too. But here's a thought - why not leave IE as it is and release a new completely compliant (as far as possible) browser which is not called Internet Explorer? The Expression team alrady wrote a new renderer from scratch that now sits in Expression Web and VS Orcas, so why not build around that and not worry about backward compatibility. If it's not the...