This morning I noticed CNN launched its new website and the new design strategy aside -- my eyes were surprised by the fact that the site would not render properly in Firefox (3.5.3). I immediately tried it in Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome... no issues there.

This only points to greater need and focus for all companies jumping into the "browser war" to focus on the Web Standards initiative and for designers, developers, corporations and media companies to put some weight behind this. The continued fluctuations related to a website's ability or inability to render -- which are directly related to the gray area of standardization -- puts a burden on companies trying to reach the widest audience possible. It also drives web users to make functional choices related to which browser they need to use when visiting websites.

Fortunately, the Firefox community has created add-ons to help solve this issue. With one click of the mouse to the IE rendering engine, all of the content elements on the CNN Home Page did a jig and properly aligned. Problem solved. I wish.