People like you are useless on the net, no better than any other ‘control the futar of teh intarweb’ companies if you try to force a decision on other users.

To respond to David: Having characters that don’t match the encoding specified are not that big of errors. I think when people refer to IE as not being compliant, they are speaking about how IE handles HTML elements. (For instance, I can’t stand the spacing problems that result from using forms and tables in IE). I have given up on making my site compliant for IE and just let the IE users change browsers or leave.

Really? I think the onload function for Bill’s site is broken then.

Also, your site fails the w3c compliance test. You have characters on your page that don’t match the encoding you’ve specified. To be fair, I thought it might just be a comment on this page but I tried another page in the archive and it fails too. It’s not a big error, but it still puts you in the camp of people with invalid sites.

It’s too bad about the blocker. I think you’d have much better success with winning people over to firefox if they could see your site and read the things you have to say. I’m afraid that a lot of people will take you up on your offer to just not read your site if they don’t like it, in which case you have lost all influence you might have had. Preaching to the choir is not a productive way to expand the user base for whatever piece of software you would like to see have wider adoption. Most people, when told to piss off, do so, and leave with a bitter taste that they will associate with the software you are promoting, since they will associate that software with you.

Thanks for the responses. It may interest you to know that yep, I’m a web developer by trade and I’m quite conversant with the problems of cross-browser complications. My company’s site has traffic from folks using several different versions of IE, FF, Opera and several others as well.

Here’s my point: If you’ve done your level best to make your site truly compliant in the most browsers, then kudos. Believe it or not, we actually tell people using severely back-level browsers (a complaining customer using IE4 is the example that springs to mind) to update to a more modern browser.

MS has recently announced that IE8 (not released yet) has passed the ACID2 test:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archi.....stone.aspx

That being said, here’s my hypothetical to you: will you continue to block *all* versions of IE? Even if I’m using IE8 (after it’s released)?

Regarding the IE script, cheers to you my friend. Megaqwerty hit the nail right on the head. As a developer, I can’t tell you how many hours of my life have been wasted “fixing” COMPLIANT code just so the site would render properly in IE.

Until Microsoft decides to conform to international standards instead of their own, IE users can goto hell. I can’t help but ask myself, “who’s the real snob here?” when it’s MS that thinks they’re to good to WORK WITH the world instead of against the world..

I surf the net as GoogleBot anyway..

RE: to comment number 43 by “fuckfirefox.” You clearly didn’t read the article you linked to. That article is IN FAVOR of Firefox you dolt. Way to go. Such typical IE user behavior.