For those who designed their own site, I'm sure most of you have experienced the frustration you get when you optimize your site for Firefox only to find out it looks messed up on Internet Explorer. A few days ago, I was telling myself that I wanted Internet Explorer to just die because of this, but I don't feel that way anymore. Microsoft just released Internet Explorer 8, and to my surprise it displays my website the same way as Firefox does. It also seems to load as fast, if not faster than Firefox (must be because of the add-ons I have for my Firefox). That's one less thing to worry about......
The problem is that very few people are using 8 and a lot of people still use ie6. It could be 3-5 years before most people have upgraded. Make sure you look at your stats to see how many of users are still using ie6, because you want to make sure your site looks good to your end user, not to you. ie6 is full of bugs and you can have some horrible display issues if you ignore ie6 & ie7.
mjewel, I actually though about that, but I didn't think it would take that long for most people to switch. Most of my visitors use Firefox, followed by IE (almost a 50/50 split between the two). I mean, the differences between both browsers is very small, but I want no difference....
True, but i still think firefox is the best and safest browser, though. Since most people are using Internet Explore, i design my pages with frontpage, and i have noticed that pages designed in frontpage opens pretty well in all the other browsers including firefox and safari.