Re: Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe browser

On 02/08/2008, at 3:24 AM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:

In think 'grass roots missionary work' is a good term Nathan, but I had
assumed that you work in the area of web development? Anyone involved in
this area must develop for the most popular browser (instead of criticising
it!)

Not true. Popularity has little to do with it. Anyone involved in "this area" must develop to the W3C standards. Then possibly deal with IE's poor implementation of those standards. No one in "this area" should develop using IE-specific behaviour nor should they fall back on the "best viewed with" trick--even for in-house web applications.

Criticising it is perhaps the only way to get it improved so development dollars aren't wasted coding for non-standard behaviour just 'cause it's "popular". It's one thing working around implementation differences--it's entirely different dealing with deliberately non-standard behaviour.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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