Re: [WSG] IE hacking.

2006-03-20 Thread Alastair Steel
Hi All, Thanks for your help it was useful. I like the comment about the customer always being right. Perhaps this could be forwarded to Microsoft as I am a customer and have asked them to build a standards compliant browser and yet they have chosen to ignore me. They are not aware of

Re: [WSG] IE hacking.

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Ottery
re Perhaps this could be forwarded to Microsoft as I am a customer and have asked them to build a standards compliant browser and yet they have chosen to ignore me. I for one think Microsoft deserve massive kudos. They *are* doing all they can to make IE7 a decent standards compliant browser.

[WSG] IE hacking.

2006-03-19 Thread Alastair Steel
Hi all, We are an open source based software development company who deal mostly with SME businesses. We write mostly to the standards for CSS2 and deploy with Firefox, Mozilla or Safari. Not having to hack everything for IE has meant we can develop faster and cheaper. We now have a potential

Re: [WSG] IE hacking.

2006-03-19 Thread Laurie Savage
A little OT here, but 1) the client is always right seems a good place to start with a POTENTIAL client, and 2) Most people use IE and see no earthly reason not to, no matter what our opinion of it. Your customers are not web designers and are quite reasonably uninterested in standards or

Re: [WSG] IE hacking.

2006-03-19 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Alastair Steel wrote: We are an open source based software development company who deal mostly with SME businesses. We write mostly to the standards for CSS2 and deploy with Firefox, Mozilla or Safari. Not having to hack everything for IE has meant we can develop faster and cheaper. Do you