75% right is one-quarter wrong
You'd think that 10 years after the 'net started growing, we'd finally be beyond the stage where pages are coded for only one type of browser.
But of course, you'd be wrong.
W3 schools.com shows 25% of the websurfers out there use something other that IE to surf the web. Why is that number important?
Because that's the Early Adopters. The people leading the charge. So if you want to write your site for the AARP crowd, by all means, use IE-specific code.
Just don't complain when you're eventually ignored by your users.
But of course, you'd be wrong.
W3 schools.com shows 25% of the websurfers out there use something other that IE to surf the web. Why is that number important?
Because that's the Early Adopters. The people leading the charge. So if you want to write your site for the AARP crowd, by all means, use IE-specific code.
Just don't complain when you're eventually ignored by your users.