It bothers me to a certain degree the lack of "quality" sites there are out there, which are, either through poor design, poor choise of colours, poor coding or the fault of the creator generally unusable.
I often end up doing web-design for work, and as the company is linux based with only the one IE box in the entire building I take great care (and I suppose pride) in making sure that everything I do is viewable by Windows and Linux users. True it takes a lot longer but I test everything in IE (5.5 / 6 ) Mozilla, NS6 (which is mozilla), Konquerer and Opera.
Came across
www.argos.co.uk the other day which says "you are using Gecko please try a different browser", which seemed to be their response for the phrase "this works in IE only". *If* the company that did their page for them was doing their job properly I wouldn't have seen that ... Coupled with the fact that this seemed to be pointless anyhow as forcing the browser string makes the site work fine and dandy.
I hate to think what the owners of the two sites above would do if they ever ventured into the world of decent design and started having to deal with browsers that support standards (or in the case of IE, don't)
IM(NS)HO, any "Web-Design" firm that can't be bothered to check it's <b>own</b> site for standards compliance should be shot.
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bedford.net%2Fjelliser%2Findex5.html">Site 1</a>
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amandawriter.com%2Fhtml%2Fweb_design.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29">Site 2</a>
Pathetic, it really is....
Sorry for the rant, but this annoys me, I *try* to take my job seriously and these cretins charge money...