"As a person, you can of course say "fuck you" to IE, but as a web professional I find it impossible to ignore it." [ Ben de Groot - http://mathibus.com/archives/2004/10/02/phpss/#comment-3 ]
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:52:46 -0600, Collin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mordechai, > I can't speak for everybody, but as the person responsible for designing and > creating websites whose sole purpose is to bring new business into the > company; my main focus is the majority that comes to our sites. The > overwhelming majority (about 70%) of visitors use MSIE 5/6. If I have to > limit myself to certain practices or markup to ensure that those people > don't get a "unstyled or lightly styled" page, then darn right I'm going to. > I'm not going to be the one trying to explain to our owner why somebody is > on the phone having problems accessing a part of the site, or trying to > explain if we get an email saying our sites are horrible. That person could > be an architect wanting to specify our products to the tune of multiple > millions on a project. So yes, in the pursuit of filthy lucre, I'm going to > cater to the majority, and the majority is IE. In answer to the question in > your subject, "Why style to IE?" my answer is: because that's who visits our > sites (by our I mean the company I work for). > Cheers, > > Collin Davis > Web Architect > Stromberg Architectural Products > p 903.454.0904 > f 903.454.3642 > e [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web www.strombergarchitectural.com > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > -- Mathias Bynens aka MaThIbUs http://mathibus.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
