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about site design... if I make something 100% Mozilla compliant...and it works with EVERY other browser except IE it dosent matter... I still failed...if it dosent load perfect in windows on IE it's a failure... average joe uses windows or a mac with IE on it...
This is one of the few statements in the arguments here that I agree with. As a developer, you must target browser market-share, as well as you can. You can't ignore the massive market share that is IE (though different versions and different platforms of IE behave differently, so simply testing on one IE is certainly not near enough...)
I test sites... I test with IE and forget it...
Pretty shoddy work. You really should make sure your site is ALSO standards compliant. (Not in place of IE functionality, but in addition to it!) At this stage, that doesn't mean going back and trying to get it to work on IBrowse, but there is no excuse for not being HTML 4.01 clean. Gecko-based browsers and Opera should be able to handle it.... The fact is, IE is not available and impossible for some of your viewers to obtain. And not just viewers who are M$ paranoid. You have a large band of corporate users who surf at work (>35% of legitimate e-commerce traffic, according to some optimistic surveys) and due to some of the latest security problems, there are workplaces that went as far as removing IE's access through the firewall. Telling people who can't use IE to use IE isn't going to make them happy, and they're not likely to come back...
