"Ian Hickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Let me prefix this by saying for those who don't know me that I am known for > being very pro-standards and pro-free-software. I'm an invited expert to the CSS > working group and I am Mozilla's default Style System QA contact. Please don't > interpret this as me being in favour of an IE-only web! > > Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am told there are many sites that only work with IE. I am trying to > > think of ways to do more to discourage that, and it occurs to me that > > Mozilla could help organize the effort in a very efficient way. > > The reason sites only work with IE is because in the real world, only IE > matters. IE has about 99% of the market by pessimistic counts, and at least 80% > by conservative estimates. From a business standpoint, ignorant web site authors > can make make a strong case to their employers that only IE compatability > matters, and that standards-compliance and testing on non-IE browsers is not > worth the expense.
I am web design trainer. It happened to me at a 50 employee company, that I was not allowed to install Netscape, Opera or Mozilla for testing purpose on the computer of their web designer. The IT chief told me, he does not want that I install all the garbage on one of his computers. Several of my stressed students, they have a lot of work beside creating the 100 to 300 page strong web site for their company, refused any testing with other browsers. They refused also to install other browsers for testing purpose. -- Roland M�sl http://pege.org Clear targets for a confused civilization http://BeingFound.com Web Design starts at the search engine
