[Revan]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

I agree with you Reavan. But if you run a business site you normally can't afford your site not being compatible with IE ...

Originally Posted by Brad.loo

IMO IE just happens to be so widly used because it just happens to ship as the default browser in the biggest OS world wide.

I find it very stupid to code in such a way that will prevent 98+ % of the users world wide to visit your site. The push for standards is a good one yes, but at the moment if something must be broken (a standard) in order for IE to see your site correctly, I would do it.

You two. I dare you to visit my site, Ultimate FF. I have its coding in, IIRC, XHTML 1.0 Strict.
View it in IE, and FF side by side.
You will see that the ONLY difference is that the header image has a small 1-2px misalignment in FF, else the entire page renders just perfect in both browsers.
If it were not for my news script, the entire page would validate 100 % against XHTML 1.1
I realise that my webpage does not have any fancy JScript, or sells anything, but it shows that the base level of websites is 100 % possible to code for both IE and FF. I spent less than 5h redoing the original coding into XHTML, it was the first time I touched XHTML, and I had rarely touched HTML before. So I think any pro can do it in a fraction of time

Onto what I find might be a problem for businesses, JScript. As we know, not all JScript works 100 % equal in both IE and FF. But I also completely believe that there are other ways of coding that function, using possibly "FF-only" code. And as you can see in vB, it is possible to have "browser-specific" JScript.

I find it EXTREMELY stupid for businesses to code sites that do not work at all in FF, because FF's download counts will only rise in the future. I boycott any site that either displays "Optimised for IE", or shows that its code does not work in FF, regardless who made it. (You can ask one of my MSN friends....)
What do you think is better business, spending $50 extra for a coder to make your site FF compliant, or losing ~8 million potential customers? ...I rest my case

Originally Posted by Zachery

IE follows the standards but not all of them, this is true
Firefox is guilty of the same, they do not follow all the standards and it does not render the code 100% correctly 100% of the time.

Both IE and Firefox have propeitery tags, which all the FF/Mozilla Nuts rant about ie having its filter: css setting, but Firefox has quite a few of its own.

Firefox is ok, it has tabbed browsing, and thats all it currently offers me, which is not enough to switch to.

As mentioned above, coding sites for FF too would be very easy, using some JScript

Originally Posted by Brad.loo

We are supposed to see some improvements in 3.1.0 if I remember correctly, the admin interface in IE kicks ass, I would love to see it working in firefox

IIRC, they said that at the time of producing vB3 ACP interface, Firefox was not able to display the IE interface. I think they said that they would give FF this too, once it was able to display it