>I'm doing a lot of detection and loading code and style
>sheets based on what browser is being used, but it's a steady pain to
>keep up with what works and what doesn't.

That's why you shouldn't do browser detection, you should do feature detection.

For HTML5, here's a guide to doing that:
http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html


>When I get really grumpy,
>my urge is to just feed a text based site to anyone using IE with a
>note at the top that says if "you want to see the pretty stuff, get a
>real browser".

Again, with sensible feature detection you will return a site that is as pretty 
as IE can handle, but without the extra frills.

Ultimately, *any* browser with all scripts/styles/images/etc disabled should 
receive a usable text-based site.

Of course, I very much agree with displaying a "get out of the dark ages" 
message to anyone running IE6 (or earlier). 

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