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but as a creator of websites I have to face the fact that most people are browsing with IE
Sadly very true. I recently had experience in designing a XOOPS site for a client only to later find out that the majority of their visitors were running IE5.0 on Macs, which did not support Xoop's CSS based themes as much as modern day browsers.
What do you do in that situation? Do you support a much older browser technology? **** no! My advise, again, was to recommend to their users to upgrade to later browser technologies (ie Firefox in that case).
Slightly irrelevant example here as IE 6.0 is far more widesread than IE5 on the Mac. Maybe the best we can do is advise our site visitors of the benefits of IE alternatives and reasons (better security, compatibility, etc)...
I also wonder what can be done from a XOOPS or Newbb2 prospective? All these two do is generate HTML code. Pretty clean and efficient HTML code I would imagine as well (not littered with Frontpage/Office markups). How can we fix a browser, that is closed source, that doesn't know how to handle HTML properly? Surely these same users will have similar virtual memory issues in
any graphically heavy website like Ebay (won't mention MSN as that is probably rigged to work perfect on IE and nothing else!), the BBC, (put your favourite graphics heavy website here)....
All I can hope for is a swift demise of IE...
