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Write to the standards, not for IE only.
How come you guys aren't writing to W3C standards?

Forget about writing for IE proprietary features and write to the standards. Then you only have to write one version of your site and it will work in all current and all future browsers. Whether 85% or 95% use IE is irrelevant to writing a web site.

Browser sniffing is like a gas station feeding a different fuel to red cars than they do to black cars.
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I am curious  Squawkbox | 11/01/04
Study: Firefox still gaining on Internet Explorer  Loverock Davidson | 11/01/04
A flash pan?  Linux User 147560 | 11/01/04
Load of crap, Mosaic still rulez  FilledOut | 11/02/04
If so...  htotten | 11/02/04
Here ya go..... Google IS your friend BTW  Squawkbox | 11/02/04
XP???  dennisling@... | 11/02/04
Yes... But OS 98 & 98SE  Freebro | 11/02/04
Heretic!!  Robert Crocker | 11/02/04
Charlotte!  wresnick | 11/03/04
back in the real world.....woah watch out for that flying pig  hipparchus2000 | 11/02/04
Security at last!  wresnick | 11/03/04
Seems to me that Microsoft...  voska | 11/02/04
Stand By  bitsbucket | 11/02/04
Small circles and large.  Anton Philidor | 11/02/04
What? A thoughtful analysis? Thanks.  Sunny Jalolly | 11/02/04
Re: Small circles and large  alterego_z | 11/02/04
Does following standards help or hurt?  Anton Philidor | 11/02/04
NOT TRUE  xshakes | 11/02/04
Re: Does following standards help or hurt?  alterego_z | 11/02/04
Largely irrelevant  IT_User | 11/02/04
Neverthess  John L. Ries | 11/02/04
Point for discussion, not an assertion of mine.  Anton Philidor | 11/02/04
How to respond?  IT_User | 11/02/04
You did assert, though,,,  John L. Ries | 11/02/04
"most users"  Anton Philidor | 11/03/04
Anton, John did not say 'most users'...  The King's Servant | 11/03/04
RE: Does following standards help or hurt?  RealAusTech | 11/02/04
Backasswards...You are....As always..at least from my POV.  LazLong | 11/02/04
Yahoo is a bad example.  Joel R | 11/03/04
An EXTREMELY impressive demonstration of the value of Web standards  Joel R | 11/03/04
Ah butt Anton..progress is still progress  Laff | 11/02/04
Look at the numbers  tic swayback | 11/02/04
Oddities in the numbers.  Anton Philidor | 11/02/04
Agreed  tic swayback | 11/02/04
Netscape  Arnohamel | 11/03/04
You don't say.....  Gosu | 11/02/04
How Firefox reaches the technically hopeless  Cat Ketch | 11/05/04
Wow such numbers!  IT_User | 11/02/04
Question  John L. Ries | 11/02/04
And a good one  IT_User | 11/02/04
Write to the standards, not for IE only.  spencerlmp | 11/02/04
Whoa, did you read the thread?  IT_User | 11/02/04
Thanks for the answer  John L. Ries | 11/02/04
Web Statistics or "The Emperor has no clothes"  tree_z | 11/02/04
Certainly one of the imponderables  IT_User | 11/03/04
See my "Yahoo is a bad example" post above...  Joel R | 11/04/04
Firefox  dennisling@... | 11/02/04
great browser  sawer | 11/02/04
A wonderful surprise  barb@... | 11/02/04
Firefox  Gosu | 11/02/04
That is really silly  LazLong | 11/02/04
Train 3000 people?  wetdog | 11/02/04
So I went to my COO (my immediate boss)  The King's Servant | 11/03/04
Firefox? Yes, but...  NukeSubs | 11/03/04
Yes, but what?  GuidoMuldoon | 11/03/04
Call and complain to you bank, worked for me  voska | 11/03/04
Then change and install IEView.  The King's Servant | 11/03/04
Better yet, install Launchy.  Joel R | 11/04/04
Unbelievable  derekgore | 11/03/04
Absolutely unbelievable...  The King's Servant | 11/03/04
Yes, the Mac is not immune.  Joel R | 11/04/04
COMAlite J  derekgore | 11/04/04
A history lesson  derekgore | 11/04/04
Poor post  derekgore | 11/04/04
About to give up on Firefox...  rdwhitti | 11/03/04
About to give up on Firefox... Why?  opensource@... | 11/03/04
Look at the Firefox forum on Mozilla.org  rdwhitti | 11/03/04
This is a good thing  DarthRidiculous | 11/03/04
Firefox  jonjon1946@... | 11/04/04
Firefox  jonjon1946@... | 11/04/04
firefox  jonjon1946@... | 11/04/04
firefox  droiddoc | 11/05/04
Some XML applications will nor work!  saul@... | 11/09/04
"Firefox is rubbish mate"  benso | 11/11/04
Apology re my earlier post  benso | 11/14/04

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