On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:23:37 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

I don't mean to sound rude, but if the sites are invisible to you because of
YOUR choice of browser, how is this anyone's problem but yours?

Blaming the website, when it is clearly a limitation of your browser, is
illogical.

There are a few reasons why it is a good thing to observe HTML
standards, even if non-standard stuff displays OK on the majority of
browsers (Microsoft).

HTML is designed to be platform independent, and flexible in how it is
displayed. Some examples of people who don't use Internet Explorer
exactly the same way you do might be blind people who use software
that reads the page, people with slow connections who turn off auto
loading of images or people with older computers. Good HTML will
provide usable web pages to all these groups, bad HTML often will not.

Another point is that the search engines you are targeting probably do
not use Microsoft, and I'm sure don't use Internet Explorer to do the
indexing. If you say non-microsoft platforms are unimportant, that
includes the search engines that you were trying to target.