ST, get ready for IE8

[digitalman]

I use both firefox and IE. Some of the apps at work require IE (still running IE 6 for some reason )

[plot]

Originally Posted by ReefHound

A site validator is an important tool but it only checks that your pages conform to standards, not whether the browser adheres to and accurately renders to those standards. Ever try coding CSS in IE6? Perfectly written and validated markup would often render horribly mangled and broken. Most developers just gave up and threw it into quirks mode. IE7 was an improvement in that regard and I hope they continue on the right path for IE8.

just show's how often and how far IE strays from the standards.


fyi, i'm not a firefox fanboy by any means, i use IE for most things, just seems like good practice to make sure a site works on multiple platforms. 26% of the market being firefox means that 1 in 4 people coming to your site are using it... that's a very significant number.

as for internal apps, i doubt any major rewriting would have to occur during development to make sure it worked on multiple browsers, going back to your old work a year later though and it's gonna take alot of time and effort to get back into it and change some things.

[ReefHound]

Originally Posted by plot

as for internal apps, i doubt any major rewriting would have to occur during development to make sure it worked on multiple browsers,

It can take an enormous amount of time, see previous about different browsers/versions rendering valid and compliant code differently.