My Piece of CyberSpace

First, let me state for the record, I have ALWAYS been a "WINDOWS Person".

My first windows based PC came with 3.0 installed. (My first computer came with BASIC installed and was made by Commodore)

I have been developing websites since 1994, so I've had to deal with Internet Explorer's distorted view of things for a long time.
But, during my early years as a developer, we were focused primarily on IE testing, and Netscape testing was one of the last things we did.
I thought IE was so much "easier" to code toward because it wasn't so "strict" when interpreting HTML/Javscript/JSP. I didn't care so much
about strict compliance, back then.

Fast forward to today, my attitude has changed as I matured. I bought my first MAC this year, it's intel based, and I REALLY like it.
I also have 2 other PC's with Windows on installed. (I don't like parallels, VMware, bootcamp, etc.) I find that I still need at least 1 PC for
certain applications I use that don't have a MAC version. But, my primary use of the Windows PC is browser testing. Specifically, IE browser testing.

I have grown to hate IE's refusal to follow the standards set for browsers. Why do I have to code a site for IE and all other browsers? (Firefox, Opera, Safari)

Finally, Microsoft is getting much closer to complying with browser standards with the release of IE 8. One website I finished needed no "special" css for IE 8,
but I still had to "dumb down" the CSS for IE 7 and 6. I will join the millions of web developers who will celebrate the death of IE 6 & 7. But that is still a while off, probably a year or so.

But at least we can see its coming.

For those who are interested in finding out about the standards I speak of, here are a couple of sites to check out:

ACID Test

WC3