web developers are too obsessed with making site totally standards compliant

In fact, I tend to find that most web developers could care less about standards.

standards are very important.

without standards you never could read this comment nor visiting jyte nor would the internet even exist!

They are not as obsessesd as they should be, at least not the ones I personally know.

The ones that care are too obsessed with it. They tend to engage in a standards compliance pissing contest that distracts them from actually making a good, functional site