Explorer Destroyer

slayer99 writes "I came across Explorer Destroyer yesterday, which is a project that aims to increase the market share of Firefox in a slightly more proactive way than is usual. They provide some code which you add to your front page which presents a banner to IE users urging them to switch to using Firefox. As a bonus, you can potentially make some money via Google's Firefox referral program."

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Re:That's retarded

[SnprBoB86]

I agree that W3C compliant sites should render correctly and you are correct that IE does not always do so.

However...

In this case, this is an extension to HTML. And as much as standards compliance freaks hate extensions, your argument is not valid in this particular instance. You do not need to develop a workaround for a feature you would not be using if your page is W3C complaint because you would not have used this feature to begin with.

IE extensions have proven to be a very good thing for the web overall. It has always been IE that has pushed the limits of dynamic web pages through the inclusion of similar extensions (primarily for the development of Outlook Web Access) which have given birth to the technologies that fuel AJAX and other modern web techniques.

This, however, does not preclude you from hating conditional comments for other reasons.