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Originally Posted by scastle
It's entirely possible a new browser will come along and knock IE off the top.
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Yup. Also entirely possible we'll be hit with a big rock and wiped out (won't that be a tragedy)
This is where Firefox missed a trick - if they could get
all web pages to display correctly
and offer speed and security improvements over IE et al, then their browser would be in a strong position to upsurp IE - providing users make the switch (that's down to marketing). If that happened, designers could then start developing compliant sites rather than IE sites, and over time IE would go the same way as Netscape (truly awful browser).
I know with my homepage (not brilliant I know) I had to remove some bits of CSS before Firefox displayed it correctly - the site had passed the CSS validator, though I know that means little. I had a width=100% somewhere in the CSS and Firefox sized the screen all wrong whereas IE displayed it fine. I think the fault was with Firefox but I'm not a web designer.