Re: Re: Firefox disguise feature needed!

> But here comes another question. What is happening here
> that those sites favor only certain commercial browsers?

What is happening is that corporations are designing their sites to  
use features (javascript, DOM, css) that are IE specific. There are a  
variety of reasons that people do this ... the only logical one I can  
think of is that is you design your site to be 100% standards  
compliant it may not look perfect in MSIE or not work in MSIE at all  
due to CSS and HTML rendering bugs, incomplete implementations, or  
just straight out divergence from the w3c standard. So you would then  
have to develop a second site and redirect MSIE to the non-standards  
compliant site, which from a business standpoint is dumb since MSIE  
has something like 85% of the market.

Right now firefox, linux, and MacOS X (and other OS's) have such a  
small market share that corporate websites just don't care. If you  
have windows, you can fire up IE6 and since most people have windows  
this isn't a problem.

WVU takes this stance as well, "Use IE 6 or Netscape 4" neither of  
which are any good ... My hope is that IE 7 breaks all the sites  
designed for IE6 only do to their rigorous adherence to w3c  
standards ... but i am not holding my breath on that one.

Mike.
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