The Web Standards Project:

"Though today’s browsers support standards, tens of thousands of professional designers and developers continue to use outdated methods that yoke structure to presentation, in some cases entirely avoiding semantic structures and misusing (X)HTML as a design tool. Highly paid professionals continue to churn out invalid, inaccessible sites filled with structurally meaningless markup, huge image maps, excessively nested tables, and outdated detection scripts that cause the very usability problems they were originally intended to prevent"

Instead of beating a dead horse, the WaSP reinvents its mission in the face of an evolving reality, and this commands respect. The "MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" tag in their source looks a bit like a political statement (and probably a moot point by now), but they practice what they preach.