> But if 90+ percent of your users are going to be using IE...doesn't it
> behoove you to design your site to work at its optimum in that browser,
> whatever its' restrictions?
No. (After looking "behoove" up in a dictionary.)
On every layer of the OSI model one simple implicit contract is what built the internet: you stick to the standard, I stick to the standard and then we can communicate.
Nobody makes a RJ45 jacket that is so different that standard RJ45 plugs won't fit in. Nobody implements an ethernet stack that is so different that it won't recognize the linkbeat of another device. Nobody implements an IP stack that is so different that it won't route to standard devices on the rest of the internet. Nobody implements a TCP stack that is so different that you can't connect to standard sockets. Nobody implements a HTTP stack that is so different that you can't GET a page.
Internet is a mutual contract. As a webmaster I do my part, and I am not going to make amends if a visitor is unwilling to do his part.
Jochem
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