Quite frankly, I'm sick of it.

I entered the PC technologies in 1989, on the Mac. Netscape was great, and it was my favorite. Then I returned to university (10 long years and 3 degrees), ended up on the PC platform (gee whiz, global even in 1995!) and I began to KNOW that NS was going to NOT win the war. By the time I entered Korporate in a high-level Webmastering job in 2000, I was forced - along with gazillions of Webbies - to "develop for cross browsers." What junk.

Nobody believed me: Netscape was on its way out. The HOURS of developing, to make the small percent of Netscaper's happy. Losing battle.

I don't use FireFox a lot. I have several online tools that are better in FireFox. No big deal. I just open it up and use it. But IE remains the one I use primarily, and the one I develop for. Not to say that I love Microsoft. Nope. I DESPISE Microsoft. But the very thing that keeps the entire GLOBE attached at the golden cajones to MS, also keeps my prefs for IE. It is global. Right now, IE users are about 76%. That is way down from the mid-to-high 90%'s of ~2000. But it is still the lion's share.

So, I am taking a stand. I've just spent WEEKS in the Dev of my sites for artistic and web services. Opened things up in FireFox a bit ago, and WHAMMO. I work in DIV's/layers. And oh gee, what a surprise... things do not render well in FF.

So if you are viewing this page in FF, and things are a bit whacko, there lies the reason. Copy/paste the URL and git yerself over to IE where things look swell.

Enuf is enuf. If I can open FF for certain reasons, then others (24%) can open IE if they want to play in my sandbox. Nobody forces us to buy MacDonald's over Taco Bell, but no matter our prefs, occasionally we eat a burger instead of a burrito. Or we drive a red car because we chose to... it does not make us incapable of driving a blue car.

These technologies are already too difficult to keep up with. It is time to take a stand. So there you have it.