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Originally Posted by scastle
No, as Richard says the differences between IE and standards based browsers (such as Opera and Firebird) is something Microsoft should address, or possibly the designers who use IE only features. The problem with people designing for IE is simply that to view a site designed for IE, you need to use IE. In itself, this is sort of acceptable IF you want Microsoft to control what browser (and therefore what OS or Platform) you are using.
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I take your point but it makes no sense to me to design for minority browsers that hardly anyone uses and then "tweak" your site so it works in the popular browsers everyone uses. That said, web designers have always been a funny lot - more art than technological. Probably why I don't touch ?TML if I can help it - my artistic efforts have largely been pictures made from bits of wool and the odd clay thing resembling road kill. My sense of colour is shocking too.
I'm not worried about Microsoft - it's a patriarchal organisation and Gates can't last forever
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Originally Posted by scastle
Increasingly, people are using the WWW on PDAs, phones or other devices that may use Symbian OS, Linux, Palm OS etc. By designing a site specifically for IE, the designers may be preventing those people from accessing their sites. If the designers stick the standards, then there will be no problem viewing sites on all devices. If IE were brought into line, it would not have problems either.
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If a website is intended to be cross-platform you would create different sites for different platforms and use some intervening technology to identify and serve the correct site - I believe this is where XML, XLST and something like Xalan come in.