Of course, the IE team blog is full of blather about how it's not really a standard, it's just one advocacy group's plaything, etc. STFU kids, you're doing well enough by joining the party at this late date.
[Oh, and it's time to trot out my Internet Explorer team anecdote: I interviewed with a just-out-of-college Korean H1-B visa holder for a job on that team, and he was emphatically not impressed with my work at Mozilla - and went so far as to tell me to my face that he didn't think it was helpful for a localization engineer to speak a foreign language. Loser!]