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nothing personal
sorry no offence intended midi25 just sounded a little weird is all.
Is there a purpose in declaring the fact that your page is IE friendly? I've always believed that actions speak louder than words.
**it USE to be cool (KIND OF) to have a little icon that said IE compatible or compliant, etc. That is no longer true**
i would not bother to declare that your're site is friendly by means like that, why ?
there was a thread a while back that said it was not a smart move.
but, its certainly not necessary, because if it is not IE, NN, Opera friendly, then it won't resolve properly and your visitor will bugger off to another site that will.
I would be more concerned with making sure that your site can resolve to the majority of browsers in use, and that if need be can drop down to 760 width resolution.
i have seen alot of sites with i.e logos on. just want to show people that my site is i.e friendly thats all. nothing hard in that is there?
I was thinking that might be your reasoning, which is why I asked. My opinion on it is that there is some harm in it - not much, mind you, but a little. There's definitely no advantage that I can see, so to me it seems like you are wasting your time and energy looking for the icon. Reasons for not putting such an icon on your site:
1. It's a waste of bandwidth. Even the MSN site uses a text link and not an icon (a few bytes versus a vew kilobytes).
2. It's unnecessary. Everyone assumes that sites are IE friendly. It might be news if a site were Amaya-friendly, but there's no real point in saying that you site supports the browser used by roughly nine out of ten users. If it isn't, no one will visit.
3. The only reason to tell users which browser your site supports is to suggest that, if they don't have one of those browsers, they can download one. Since that's the case, you could just make a site that says it is compatible with "all modern browsers" and provide a link to the Web Standards Project upgrade page, which lists several browsers.
[webstandards.org...]
4. Clutters up your page
Reasons for including such an icon:
1. You're being paid by a browser company? Personally, I'm definitely for sale if Bill Gates wants to write a check, the icon goes up in 24 hours!
Sorry for the bad joke
Tom
If you see them on lots of sites, why don't you just take one of those? Undoubtedly, the copyright belongs to MS and they would be thrilled to have you advertise for them.
Like papabaer said, it's your choice. I just wanted to encourage you to think about it a bit.
Tom
I bet you could find plenty visiting the Wayback Machine! ;)
Do a Google image search (with quotes): "MSIE logo"
Tom
