On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>wr=
ote:

> ignore it.  But IE6 does work on basic features, so this means you are
> trying to use something more advanced.  Do you really need it, or is it
> fluff?  Remember that when web designers think it's cool, that means it's
> annoying to users.
>

FYI: Browser incompatibility sometimes means that the browser does not
display the page in the same way as expected, but still can see the same
content. For example a text box at the bottom of the page instead of the
left hand side. Sometimes pages are full of if-else conditions to adopt the
same thing for different browsers so all of them (or majority of them) coul=
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display it pretty much the same way.

This is because of two things:

1. HTML was never meant to be a publication platform, only a hierarchical
text language.

2. Different browsers implementing the HTML rendering in a different way.
Some of them are even inventing non-standard HTML elements (mostly IE).

But yes, if you do the most simple thing, (only text and simple images) the=
n
probably you will never face of problems, but then you loose interactivity,
no fancy menu system, nicely placed blocks on the page etc. Overall then th=
e
page looks oldish and that might not good in terms of marketing.

Tamas



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