When creating a web page, you have to write extra code for people who have browsers that aren't standards-compliant, those that don't support CSS, those that don't support JavaScript, those that don't support Ajax, those that don't support images....

I thought about this for a while and now I'm asking... why?? Why, in the new Web 2.5 with CSS3, HTML5 JavaScript x.x and the XMLHttpRequest() object, are we still trying to make sure users using IE5 aren't left out? Sure, you may argue "Well, that gets the webpage to less people. It won't be as popular." Well, how many people right now are using a CSS-less browser? Let me see, those using Dillo and those using Lynx. Who goes around the Internet with CSS disabled? I'm still waiting to see someone who does that.

Even if there are a few people out there who may refuse to upgrade from IE3 or whatever, let's go ahead and leave them behind. Will that impact the number of people who visit your page? Probably not. If you make a good website, people using old browsers will:
(a) upgrade
(b) not upgrade
Out of the tiny percentage of people who even have such a useless browser, I'm willing to bet over half will upgrade. In fact, half of those using IE will switch browsers if nobody designed webpages to be compatible with non-standards-compliant browser.

The point is - leave bad browsers behind. If there were no pages incompatible with IE, we would leave it behind and MS would make it better. The way things are now, we're stuck. CSS3 brings great things, but the current most popular browser doesn't support it, among other various "things" that web developers could live without but don't want to.

I don't see why we even bother.

But, of course, this guy is a huge supporter of IE, and since he says so, I guess we can't make this change.

Quote Originally Posted by That guy
Forget all the other browsers and down with the Web 2.0 police!