Originally posted by: Terumo
Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Our IE apologist (do I sense some anti-anti-conformity here?) adamantly states that we all must code for IE instead of coding to standards. I'm very sorry, but just because he wants to be willingly ignorant (in other words, "dumb on purpose"), does not mean that he shouol be excused for trying to drag the rest of us down to his level.
His "screw the minorities" attitude works <sarcasm>really well</sarcasm>, especially when you consider that a site with loads of proprietary BS will also not be accessible to certain groups of persons with physical handicaps (gah, I guess that's the politically correct way of saying that somebody's blind) who must use specialized browsers that are much rarer than Firefox et. al.
If you're referring to me, I'm a woman (yeah geeky women exist, big boy). Actually I never said that, but I do say that there shouldn't be pressure to confirm to some purists ideal. If that's so we'll all be using MACs today.....lololol
Web designers must be able to expand, they are NOT just programmers. Anytime art is confined it becomes ugly and even Church sanction!!
And I don't seek to be converted to any Church. What works, what passes W3C, HTMLTidy and whatever else code checker does the trick. If it looks sorry in an alternative browser, 90% of the time there's a IE button to click on folk's computer, anyway -- it's a non issue.
Yeah, accessibility is key. Many sites only will operate effectively in IE (try vBulletin's advanced text editor, for example. It's uses MS proprietary code to work because 90% of the market uses it, especially the forum population). You can't, I can't, W3C can't change it. Each site is their own serfdom, and each site can chose to use IE only code if they choose. The internet is NOT the Soviet Union, afterall.