The point I was trying to make was that my audience primarily uses IE (as I dare say, so do most commercial web audiences). As such, I design my sites to work first and foremost *for* IE. The bashing of head against the proverbial brick wall comes from trying to make my standards-compliant sites work the same in FF/Opera/NN/Safari as they do in IE. All of my sites (save for I think 2), are done in XHTML 1.0 Strict, and I make sure each page validates, as well as the CSS. I first make sure the sites look and perform the way I want in both MSIE 5 and 6. After that is successful, I then start testing in the other browsers. For other sites (personal, concept, etc.), I worry about IE last, because most of my friends and colleagues use more standards compliant browsers. While I do know ECMA-262 (Javascript), I hate using it. I can develop much quicker just using a pure markup+css approach, and have no need for scripting. I hope that makes my original post clearer. In no way did I think Mordechai was suggesting an ignoring an IE, but was asking why style to IE specifically, and I was just giving the rationale for doing so. Cheers :)
Collin Davis Web Architect Stromberg Architectural Products p 903.454.0904 f 903.454.3642 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] web www.strombergarchitectural.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vicki Berry Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 11:15 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Why style to IE? >>I don't believe Mordechai was suggesting anyone ignore IE -- rather >>that, instead of bashing our heads against the proverbial brick wall >>trying to make our standards-compliant sites work in IE, it may be a >>workable option to use an alternative to said head bashing and css >>hacks. His suggestion was to use Javascript. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
