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My Bank BB&T won't work with Firefox. =(

-Grym

Mozilla, never heard of it. I'll make a note of it.

I have yet to come across a page that NetScape couldn't render. I don't know what you and dad are talking about.

Every browser I've tried renders my bank's site correctly, but only MSIE can navigate it. So that whole button and link clicking thing, that's just a proprietary extension to MSHTML, right?

Better Bank and Trust is my bank. You CANNOT log in withou IE. Mozilla fails to display correctly. I mailed them, and got a BS answer about the "wrong" type of java being used since greater than netscape 4.x! As near as I can tell, it is related to the good ol' layer tag, but I am not certain. If you want to, take a look!

My bank did not play friendly with Konqueror at all. However after switching the browser identification to WinXP/IE 6 it works like a charm.

I do. Try going to here and logging in. Compare browsers. Even though you need an account to actually log in, under IE, the page looks different. Under moz, the submit button doesn't work!!!! When I complained, they told me it was because of incompatible versions of JAVA that NS/Moz uses. Methinks they are a bit confused.

Actually, most sites that claim to adhere to standard xy or z do. The real problem is that most site don't claim any standard at all.

There are plenty of good sites that are standards compliant, but most sites just don't care, and it's partially due to the fact that some places use bad code (my bank for one, which renders the front page, but you can't login [ps, if anyone knows anything about the .fsp extension for pages, let me know] under Moz/NS7; when I contacted them they told me that it was because the version of JAVA that NS7 and Moz use is incompatible with the version they use. They never got it that the version of JAVA on a machine has little to do with the browser, just the OS, and who installed it), and it seems like they don't even know what is good coding.

Other times, its because they learned web design in the graphic design dept, and their teacher just wanted it to look pretty. It happens.

Other times it's because the designer is using whatever WYSIWYG editor their business/school provides, and they don't know enough to check.

But for people who know to check, they generally have valid code. Personally I strive for XHTML 1.0 Strict, but that's a choice. It means I can't use [FRAMESET]or [IFRAME], but that's okay.

I do agree that most stuff, however, is not standards compliant, and it's sad.

Even 1.0 STILL won't work correctly with my On-line banking!

AARRGGHH!!