[paulo72]

... not sure anything is likely to drive people away from standards compliant browsers, maybe just sites that won't render in less capable browsers.

I reckon the user would blame a poorly rendered site on the author/owner rather than the browser.

Standards are the goal, and it's never been closer. However, interoperability is more important. Writing markup, code and styles to the standards and provide at least an accessible level of operability to the less capable user agents.