It seems to me that the broader the appeal of a site the more it will lean toward IE compatibility. It would be interesting to know how pro web designers decide which compatibilitys to apply and to what degree to apply them. I expect that they rely on niche demographics appealing to their client's market.
The problem is that many "pro web designers" *don't* decide at all. They just blindly use the tools that produce pages full of MS' proprietary enhancements and sloppy code. You can even tell they rarely test their pages using a slow connection or a slower computer -- if they did, the web would be far faster!
Then there are two ways to render every web page: The standards-based way, and the MS way. If you're a standards-based browser, and the page is full of sloppy code and/or proprietary MS "enhancements" - what do you do? You try to guess what MS wants, but you can't get too close lest you be sued...
- Dan.
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