> >> You can still support IE6- but some authors just don't want to > bother > >> understanding why IE6- has shocking CSS2.1 support or why a document > >> is rendered broken in IE6-. I agree with Andy Clarke by sending > >> IE6/Win un-styled pages but their is also that user agent IE5/Mac. > > > > I'm not making myself clear. He is not serving IE6- an *unstyled* > page, > > he is serving it a DIFFERENTLY styled page, and a style that is just > as > > complex - but different. Different graphical accents. Black-and- > white > > photographs instead of color photographs. Differences like that. > IMO, > > the same kind of stupid penalization of IE that it suffered when > > Netscape users would use the (unsupported-by-Netscape) FONT tag to > set > > the Symbol font (making the page unreadable in IE) when the first > > version of IE came out. He wants to treat IE6 like the same kind of > > pariah that Netscape 4 has been for years, with less excuse in the > case > > of IE6, because IE6 DOES support most of what he wants to do. > > Ok, I see. He want IE6- to render a page like it antiquated or ugly. I > totally agree but this has to be a top down banishment of IE6-. The > governments and the corporations of this world have to inform the > masses (by whatever medium) that there are 100s of thousands of web > designers pleading for users to stop using IE6-. This does require > large scale activism.
I don't understand why people think it is just a matter of choice for the end user. I'm not for serving pixel perfect designs - or even identical look - across browsers, but I'm not for "punishing" IE6 users either. I'm sorry, but this makes no sense to me... -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | articles and tutorials www.ez-css.org | ultra light CSS framework ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
