I've been thinking, stupid is probably the wrong word. Ignorant is probably better.

As to my preffered browser. You can use any standards compliant browser. It doesn't have to be Mozilla.

If you want to support legacy browsers, then write a page in HTML 3 and no CSS. That is fine with me. You are still writing a standards compliant site, you are just going with much much older standards. I would hope that once a standard has been a standard for four years that it is old enough to be understood.

There is a practice which bothers me, and I wish I could find an example to demonstrate it. I see it from time to time. Catering to the lowest common demoninator. You act like your entire audience is as stupid as the most stupid member. You insult the collective intelligence of your audience. I can't stand that practice, it makes no sense. All you are doing is promoting stupidity and you driving away those members of your audience that can actually think for themselves.

You shouldn't do that. You shouldn't cater to the lowest common denominator. You should set an even target. People are smart enough to rise to the level you set. Your audience as a whole will get smarter.

As to actually selling something. People have proven time and again that they are stupid. They will repeatedly buy inferior products and exorbatant prices. They will repeatedly be duped into the dumbest of schemes, of advertising programs.

There are people who honestly think that Windows has to be better than Linux because you pay for Windows. How can anything free be good? And Windows has to be good because so many people are using it. If it was so bad, why would so many people use it. I don't know.

I am beating a dead horse, bringing up these topics again, but...

The VHS was inferior to the BetaMax. But people bought the VHS. There are reasons, sure. But this proves that just because everyone has something, doesn't mean it is really that good.

Millions of soccer moms who are in desperate need of a minivan buy sport utilities just because they are wanting a status symbol. Millions of Americans spend entirely too much money on "fashoinable" clothes that are really just generic articles with the name of a designer boldly stenciled on it. These jeans are no different that those jeans, and this sweater is no different than that sweater, but once we put a big brand on it, it becomes a status symbol.

People prove over and over again that they are inheritedly stupid.

Anyway, I could keep going, but the point is, if you treat your audience like idiots, then that's what they will be. I have no desire to cater to that.