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Edit: fixed link, thanks Saint!

@unity: I'm very impressed with your expertise on this matter, and I'm sure that whoever's leading the various 3PD 'units' will be glad to have you onboard! In terms of the framework it sounds like your describing something like rails, written in Ruby, or django, written in Python (and no I don't ha...

For sure, but it doesn't take too much to get web standards to work in IE, and many of the templates for mambo are quite simple. We're not talking about hugely advanced CSS here (which wouldn't be appropriate anyway for the average mambo user)

On another related note, whilst talking about semantic headings, I believe mambo has a rediculous amount of CSS classes going on. Many CSS designs can be accused of what is known as 'divitis', and going overboard on the classes. The idea is to reduce code bloat, and many people making the transition...

I'm on board as well! I think it's important Mambo stands up and be counted in the standards world, because for a lot of people, only some of the more popular blogging tools like wordpress and textpattern (which incidentally I love!) incorporate many standards features. Like Vavroom already pointed ...

Mambo has been great for me. As someone who doesn't have strong programming skills it's allowed me to get work and make money on projects that, without Mambo, I would never of had a chance to compete for. The fact that those developers who made this possible, with all those wonderful components, bot...