Browsing standards

Well as you'll probably notice, I (finally) validated this site for XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2. While doing so I took a look at this site using every browser I could get my hands on.
As there are: Mozilla Mac, Mozilla Firebird, IE 5.2 Mac, IE 6 SP1 for Windows XP, Opera 6.02 Mac (Why isn't there a actual version?), Safari 1.1 (of course ;-).
Now I can understand all those complains about the standard compatibility of modern browsers. Just look at this:
Ok, I designed the Page using Safari (or, to be more precise the WebKit preview in SubEthaEdit), so the page looks like I intended in Safari.

Now here goes Mozilla Firebird, who renders very nice and (almost) like I intened:

Mozilla does even better than Firebird (note the RSS icon, which is made up using div and span

IE for Mac does (and here I was suprised) does a good job:


Opera (in the old 6.02 Version) does bad, but I also tested a 7.x version, which does a lot better, but I got no screenshot of that:
 

And now after I showed how it should look I'll show how IE 6 SP1 for windows XP does it's job and this ist why it doesn't suprise me that most Company websites are not "state of the art" XHTML but some bad HTML-something. this clearly is nothing to blame the webdesingers for. You can only blame this:
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Update: Oh what hell of a day; it really has to be bad to make me confuse </img> with </image>