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Originally Posted by Sir VG
Merv, at least their message is better than the one I get from my work's site. Granted, some of that is not true (with Maxthon, I can use IE's rendering engine and have tabbed browsing and block popup windows though I know they're making a reference to IE directly, which even then IE6 has a popup blocker, as sucky as it may be). All ours says is to "Use IE 5.0 or newer. If you don't have it, you sux0r lolol" (Ok, not literally.)
And I get to see statistics on sites I run of the browsers, resolutions, etc of what people run. Firefox doesn't make up a huge majority of hits. I almost have more people using Safari than Firefox (what the hell is Safari anyways...). Most people are using Windows XP and IE. Firefox is the Mac of browsing at this point and I don't see it overwhelmingly taking over IE anytime soon because people just use IE because:
1) It's already installed.
2) They're ignorant to Firefox, Opera, etc
3) They may be limited by their bank, work place, etc.
And personally, I don't program sites with the idea of making it compliant with Firefox, Opera, etc. Granted I don't do any fancy PHP, MySQL, or similiar crap, so it wouldn't really matter anyways...it's old school HTML (with a little Javascript) which if those browsers couldn't render, they would be the total suckfest.
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Unless you're designing these sites as a service for other people, it doesn't really matter. A site doesn't necessarily need to be coded to W3C standards, but it needs to be coded
properly.
That's fact, but my opinion is that if you aren't conforming to
at least HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 you shouldn't be coding websites at all. Unfortunately, Microsoft has unleashed their ungodly spawn unto the internet, making it difficult to make a site look the same in other browsers. That's where W3C comes in so we don't all have one fucked up internet gangbang of messy, non-conforming pages. Getting a page to validate isn't fucking
rocket surgery. =D
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