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The standards are designed to be cross platform. i.e. they are not platform or set-up dependant.
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I disagree with the second half of your statement -- standards are designed to be cross-platform and cross-browser, their implementation however is another matter.
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You see to be implying that the standards are pointless.
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Nope, sorry if I gave that impression. Not sure where I implied that.
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Can you please clarify your take on this. i.e. Do you think that web sites don't need to be written to conform to w3c standards.
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I'd prefer it if they were but actually, no they don't. You can write a website using html v1. and it'll still work in almost any browser because it's in the browser manufacturers interest to display as many sites as possible. At this point in time, there's no necessity involved.
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Of course if you don't think we should adhere to w3c standards then you are condoning microsoft going their own merry way regardless of what anyone else is doing.
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They do that anyway.
I think that with personal sites, and pretty much anything we can get away with, it's important to be as up to date as possible because it forces companies like microsoft to move ina coherent direction. However when building a corporate site for a client I think it's unreasonable to expect that client to accept losing potential clients, especially when they don't need to. From a business point of view, that's dangerous teritory.