If you're part of the web-standards-only congregation, it seems like it's time to track back your steps and start watching your back... again.

The IE7 team has posted a call to action for all web designers to be on the lookout for new hacks sprouting from their once web-compliant pages. Looks like some of the CSS fixes they have made are causing pages under the strict doctype to collapse.

That is sure to put the 'forward-compatibility argument' at stake once again -- you know, the belief that if you build your sites according to current web standards, there'll be no need to change or update them in a long, long time. But then what's the point of building web-compliant sites if, in order to do so, many layouts will require the use of hacks relying on IE flaws?

The debate is sure open between those 'sticking to the rules' and those choosing reality over theory. So... go ahead, which type are you?