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Should dA (and other sites) simply not work in IE? 

42%
40 deviants said No, sites should work to make it viewable in any browser
38%
36 deviants said Yes. It's time to force some standardization among browsers
19%
18 deviants said It's not so black & white. There's some gray option I'll post
1%
1 deviant said I really don't understand :B

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~Every-Word-I-Type Dec 30, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Perhaps in IE dA should have a cut down feature set or run an older version of the website.

Although, I'm not really sure how easy that would be to implement...
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:iconelectricjonny:
`electricjonny Dec 30, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
That would be nice, but I imagine it would be hell to maintain and keep up.
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:iconevery-word-i-type:
~Every-Word-I-Type Dec 30, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
yeah, exactly.

A better idea might be to just not worry about the bugs that IE users experience and have a notice appear on the screen saying "parts of this site might not work for IE users" if the user is browsing in IE.
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:iconelectricjonny:
`electricjonny Dec 30, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
:nod:
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:iconalecwolfe:
Yes! God yes. I've started coding journal skins, just messing with it for dA, and haven't bothered to hack anything for IE - what's the point? IE doesn't work, Microsoft don't want to conform so suck. IE isn't the best, or even a good option, web browser, so why not do away for it?
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:iconelectricjonny:
`electricjonny Dec 11, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
Yeah I kind of agree. If anything, if websites simply didn't work in IE, it would shout to IE that they need to make their browser more normal. Not be so damn different to the point of making developers use all kinds of wacky work arounds to get things working.
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:iconalecwolfe:
This is true. I guess if everyone boycotted it for long enough it would fade out of existence of they would make the changes. Being so deliberately different doesn't really make sense either, I mean, what is the reasoning behind making people have to do a lot of extra work just to get IE do what it should do anyway...
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:iconelectricjonny:
`electricjonny Dec 11, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
Yeah, it's a damn mystery. There's a ton of standardization, but IE doesn't seem to do any of it. It's a damn shame.
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:iconalecwolfe:
It is really. I hold a grudge against Microsoft anyway and use Mac but from what I remember of using PCs in general it's all needlessly more complex than it needs to be and yet it continues to be the most popular O.o I suppose pricing makes a big difference.
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:iconelectricjonny:
`electricjonny Dec 11, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
Ha, well now I guess we could get into an OS war, but that's typically pretty pointless. People will like what they like.

Myself, I find Macs to be too simplistic. There's no easy way to adjust settings and whatnot. But then again, I haven't used a Mac consistently since version 9, and god, that was just a horrid piece of mess, version 9.
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