I'm thinking this is why some of the bugs that are filed maybe look ok 
in IE but are not in Mozilla = evangalism (fun, fun), but the opposite 
is true.. :)  Read for more:  Found at 
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/games/winxp/page10.asp


-dennis

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Internet Explorer 6

IE6 has two modes of website rendering: W3 Consortium standard and... 
"error" mode. If you've ever wondered why certain sites look broken on 
Netscape's Navigator, they're actually being displayed correctly; IE is 
the one that was displaying things improperly. Since IE became so 
popular, everyone started coding for it not realizing that IE wasn't 
fully W3C compliant. Therefore websites that looked perfect when viewed 
with IE, actually could be coded incorrectly.

Microsoft attempts to satisfy everyone with the dual display mode of 
IE6. You can switch from W3C standard to IE layout depending on which 
site you want to view. This gives web programmers more flexibility when 
testing out their website designs. There's no longer a need to install 
Navigator to make sure your website looks right on all browsers (news 
we're sure Netscape will hesitate to applaud).

Despite this useful feature, certain websites still don't function 
properly no matter what mode IE is in. Certain dropdown menus don't 
appear in IE6 but do in IE5. This makes it traversing through certain 
menu driven sites rather difficult but nothing a little persistence 
can't handle.


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