"Jay Honeck" writes:

It's *your* problem if your site is one of the invisible ones and you're
trying
to attract customers. Which your site is, and which you are.

So I'll stay at hotels that use standard HTML for their web sites, rent
from car
agencies that use standard HTML, etc.

George, please see http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp ,
which show browser use statistics.

As you can see, Microsoft browsers are used by 97% of all internet users.

That's true this week, but next week Microsoft will release a
differently incompatible browser (or maybe next month). You're better
off sticking to standards.

And on the sites *I'm* hosting, while IE is over 50%, it's by no means
dominating. I get hits from a *lot* of different browsers (based on
133,000 page views a day, or over 900,000 "hits" a day).

Another important thing to remember is the search engine "bots"; if
your site doesn't work with them, you're totally hosed.
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