Does Internet Explorer have a future? It has seemingly been more-or-less untouched over the past few years. The website “Slightly Bent” has more on the subject.

If you visit my website in Mozilla, it looks great. In Safari and Konqueror, it’s almost the same as Mozilla (except for the rounded edges which are implemented in both CSS3 and a Mozilla hack which is more-or-less the same as the CSS3 border-radius). If you view my site in Internet Explorer, it does not fare as well. It works, but the side box area is offset to the right a bit and none of the nifty hover stuff works. Why is that? My website is not broken — it renders fine in multiple browsers (even IE on the Mac); it’s Internet Explorer for Windows which is at fault. I can’t fix that. I must either ignore the 90% (or so) stranglehold Microsoft has on the market or work around issues (and accept the fact that IE won’t render things correctly).

In the mean time, if you are currently using Internet Explorer, please see a few reasons to switch to Mozilla Firebird, and download a build. (The latest release, Mozilla Firebird 0.6 might be a good starting point.)