g1smd - 6:02 pm on Nov 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

Ah, that is exactly the responses I expected;

I made a web page and displayed it using IE. As it looked OK, that was it. I uploaded it. Job done.

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So I will contend that it wasn't actually designed for IE at all. It just happens to work in that browser, one that will display mangled HTML without complaint. There was no piece of code, no special methodology that was applied, working to some known specification to get the web page done. Sadly, viewing a web page in one version of IE, on one computer, using one particular OS, makes no guarantee that there is any other computer on the entire planet that is capable of viewing it the same way, or even of viewing it all.

I think that designing involves a few more steps, certainly involving using a validator to get rid of all the errors in the code, and testing on a variety of browsers (and tweaking the code) to make sure they all do a good job of rendering the code in an acceptable manner.

I see those "designed for IE at 800x600" logos on web sites as really saying "I couldn't be bothered to do the job properly".

Hmm, worms, can of, now opened.