Most people have no idea what web standards are.
And why should they? How much of the POP or HTTP standard does a user need to know?
I believe it is our job to use and spread web standards for the bettering of the web for *all* of its *users*. This can be achieved by both implementing standards based web content and by influencing those who currently do not. The WSG is an epitome of this cause.
Users don't care that IE is not the most standards compliant browser.
What they might care about though is the fact that IE, both with its large user base and flakey current standards implementation, persuades web designers to create web content inaccessible to many of world's less-abled users, and hence indirectly screws over a struggling minority.
Users may also care about IE's proven lack of security -- but that's not exactly a web standards issue now is it ;)
If you really want to make a difference don't try and get everybody to change to IE. Go and grab the closest web designer that has no idea about web standards and bring them to the next WSG meeting.
-- tim lucas
http://www.toolmantim.com
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