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Originally Posted by Joe
There is standards in place its called "Internet Explorer!" Standards!
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yah, unfortunately we are all placed under the IE monster. plain and simple, you have to build your sites compliant with IE. from what i've seen, and webmasters i've talked to with all sorts of sites, i'd say IE controls 80%+ of the market share. while there are exceptional alternatives like mozilla, IE is convenient.
i build everything for mozilla, and check for IE compatibility. unfortunately under my opinion, IE's html rendering is atrocious at best, which causes for some problems. IE is EXTREMELY forgiving in writing magnificently horrible code... and it will display correctly.
i find that about 98% of the time, if you build something for the mozilla-based browsers, it will work in IE. but that 2% of the time it doesn't, i find it's much more difficult to get it to display properly in IE.
there are however, a few neat tricks that are incorporated in IE that other browsers aren't incorporating, however they are catching up with the times, so-to-speak. although i'm still disappointed that IE doesn't natively support the PNG format. it's such a nice format, you'd think they would allow it. you can get IE to display png's properly, but it's extremely cumbersome, and something i'd not recommend (although i have done it). as far as i know, safari, mozilla, and opera all support the png format.
anyways, good to hear about tbird. i've been happy with it so far, and it seems stable. as long as things maintain, i'll probably be keeping it.