Re: Why are Websites Still Forcing People to Use IE?

Approximately 79% of internet surfers use internet explorer. Why design a site (especially a business site) that may not be compatable (or display correctly) with 79% of your visitors?

my theory is that the ones who do so use utilities built by micosoft.

So they don't make their websites that way because they want to, but rather because they are n00blets and don't know HTML and JAVA very well ; )

I am tired of the dictatorship and monopolist ideas of microsoft. why is this still happening? boycott thier sorry crap now!!!!

To me, it doesn't make sense to design a website that is ONLY compatible with IE. I have come across several sites like that and it even forced me to choose an alternative phone service because of Bellsouth's website only being compatible with IE.

For Mac users, IE is not an option since Microsoft quit the development and support.

I personally use Firefox to browse the net.