I suspect I'm not the only one who remembers all those web sites with the little icon/graphic saying something along the lines of "Best viewed wit Internet Explorer". Well, "the times they are a changin'" as one Robert Zimmerman would have probably said!
IE is becoming the lame dog of the browser world simply because standards are being applied and Microsoft no longer calls the shots. My website is written to W3C standards for HTML and CSS (or, it should be) and it works in all standards compliant browsers. The only one it looks a dog in, is IE and even IE7 doesn't work. Simply because IE cannot cope with absolute positioning in CSS. In the old days, web designers used IE because it was so dominant, nowadays, and especially with yet another huge security hole in it, web designers are writing standard code and IE users have to suffer. I've seen quite a few sites that have the icon/graphic saying "Best viewed without IE"! Even at work, we cannot upgrade to IE7 yet because almost all our Web based applications have been written (by external companies I hasten to add) to IE 5.0 standards. We had to pay a lot of cash to get IE 5.5 to work, so that's where we are now. Firefox simply doesn't work because the code is so cr4p and fails HTML validation in a big way. :-( Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
