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Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doesn't-that-burn-your-bottom dept.

An anonymous reader says "According to this story on news.com, it is becoming harder for users of Microsoft-free systems and browsers to view the web. This seems to be a new call to arms from the standards groups, and it is something we should be thinking about. Without help from web designers, using browsers like Mozilla and Opera will effectively cut off our ability to view web sites 'correctly.'" My pet peeve is when sites hype and announce new-and-improved sites, and then they come out and they are simply a gigantic flash application.

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  1. A little irony by maiden_taiwan · · Score: 4, Funny
    True story.

    At a world-famous corporation (that shall remain nameless here), the chief technology officer mandated IE as the official company browser. Compatibility with all other browsers was to be ignored for cost reasons, for all intranet sites.

    The CTO announced the mandate on an intranet web page.

    The page, when rendered in IE, crashed.

    Of course it displayed perfectly in Netscape.

  2. Re:Complain to webdesigners by vanyel · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as a large enough percentage of users are using IE, complaining won't help much. You can help educate them with a variation of the following stuck in your <head></head> section:

    <script language="JavaScript">
    <!-- Hide the script from old browsers that don't recognize scripts

    var browser_name = navigator.appName;
    var browser_version = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);

    if (browser_name == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
    document.write("<font face=\"Futura, Kudos, Helvetica, Arial\">");
    document.write("<center>\n");
    document.write("My condolences! ");
    document.write("You appear to be running Internet Explorer.<br>\n");
    document.write("I highly recommend checking out ");
    document.write("<a href=\"http://www.opera.com\">Opera</a>\n");
    document.write("as an alternative...\n");
    document.write("</center>\n");
    document.write("</font>\n");
    document.write("<p>\n");
    } // -->
    </script>