I barely know whether to giggle or cry – for many years I have been vexed by “This page best viewed using Internet Explorer at 800×600” pages, and now in a fit of turnabout-is-fair-play Mike Werner writes:

[blogs.motorbiker.org]

As off this weekend, I’ll be viewing and testing all articles only using Mozilla’s FireFox web browser !! That, because a) too many problems & security issues in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and b) Firefox is faster, lighter and better.

That does NOT mean that this site will not work with Explorer. It will, but sometimes, things may be out of alignment since Explorer is not 100% HTML standards compatible!

So do yourself a favor, and get Firefox. You can run both browsers on your PC with no problem so don’t worry about getting rid of Explorer. You’ll see it’s not big and runs faster, and it’s free !! Try it…..

I can’t say I am surprised – in fact, I should say that I am downright sympathetic with Mike’s situation – and being of the this page best viewed with any anything that does a decent job of rendering baseline HTML brigade, I won’t welcome it when it arrives… but all that aside, I will still be tickled pink when some aggreived webgeek first starts creating “best viewed using Firefox” web-pages.

In fact:

[www.google.com]

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… the column. 30th Aug. (C) the small print Best viewed using Firefox or IE
v.5 or higher using a resolution of 800 x 600 or better.
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– it looks like that day is already here.

Funny thing is, I use Safari.