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And hardly anybody uses XHTML because it provides no advantage over HTML.

I advise you to check what you browser renders. Most of the CMS check what visiting browser is and generate XHTML if supported. (E.g. mozilla.org is mostly XHTML, http://browsehappy.com/, etc)

XHTML is XML-compliant and can be rendered by browsers faster. That is main advantage of XHTML. For real life HTML, it's next to impossible to verify validity. XHTML solves that problem allowing browsers to skip many checks and thus render pages considerably faster.

Wrong, since your advise has link to browser favored by you. In other words, it's not anymore about "browser supporting standard" but "standard browser we do support".

Link to http://browsehappy.com/browsers/ IMHO would be better. The site was established long ago and lists proper alternatives to IE for all platforms. It's bit too much into security and wasn't updated recently, yet it is a great starting point.

Why create an annoying additional campaign. Use an existing one:

http://browsehappy.com/

R.

Not just "the" competition, but competition in general. Forget IE itself for a second, the big problem is monopoly. That's why MS can afford to be so sloppy.

So yes, let's convince people to use alternatives. There are "switch" campaigns all over, most of them focused on specific browsers, most of those on Firefox, since it has the most momentum. Sites like Browse Happy (IE is bad, use something else), or Stop IE (IE will eat your brain, use something else) or one I'm working on, Alternative Browser Alliance (monopoly is bad, use something else).

The trick is finding the right approach -- and that'll be different for each potential switcher.

Interesting.
Left just as Firefox came on the scene.
Additionally Opera has been debatably more polished than IE for most of its existence.

I highly recommend you try some of the other browsers. Aside from the fact that you may realize just how polished some of the other browsers are you will also gain the benfit of getting familiar with IE7 before its even out!

-ME®

Greasemonkey is good and on asa's blog, platypus was mentioned which is a great new extension to interactively modify pages and generating greasemonkey scripts from your changes. Now, browse happy, worry free, and worship our common WWW illiterate god! I hate Microsoft, and Apple is cool, especially since OS X builds on open source.

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