Most excellent jobs! (In Norway or Sweden, though)

[acmejack]

[nickinSTL]

1. Web evangelist?

:shrug:

[acmejack]

2. I had to look at that one too!

"looking for technical evangelists to continue our work on promoting cross-browser coding practices to make the web accessible to everyone and on any device."

[skids]

3. It's common practice.

Referring to this kind of task as "evangilism" is common practice in the more "hip" sectors of IT. People in the know in IT consider many of the factions where two camps of users or developers decide that the other camp's technology sucks so bad they don't want to touch it, or even know anything about it, a "religious war," which is a hyperbole for a technical prejudice that has no real basis in logic.

Some famous IT "religious wars" are:

UNIX versus Microsoft
Debian versus Redhat
Gnome versus KDE
emacs versus vi
perl versus python

An "evangelist" is responsible for mending these problems by explaining, repeatedly and persistantly, to people that do the developing why they should support the other camp's technology -- not necessarily use it, but make their stuff compatible.

In this case, they are referring to the fact that a lot of people who write webpages don't bother to check them with multiple browsers before they publish them, so you get pages that are broken under one of IE, FireFox, Opera, etc.

[nickinSTL]

4. in the more "hip" sectors of IT

hmm. I've never heard of it...

maybe because the IT people I know are stuck in the distinctly un-"hip" midwest.