Finally Microsoft have chosen to join the rest of the civilized world and release a browser using the same coding as Firefox and Safari. It is such a nice change to design a site that displays perfectly with Safari and Firefox – and now I.E!!.

Historically when ever we design a site that works as it should in all mainstream browsers, we would then do the dreaded I.E check, having to check the site in I.E 6 & 7. Usually our work would require a bit of design tweaking in order to function with I.E 7 and I.E 6 would be all over the place.

The reason is that for some reason Microsoft saw fit to make a pixel size different for each of their browser releases and totally different from everybody else. This means that every website would need to have a separate style sheet for practically every version of Internet Explorer, meaning practically a complete recode for every version.

Hopefully now Microsoft have joined the rest of the world then over time we will only need to code sights once. Often though it takes people years to upgrade their browser, sometimes we bump into people that are still using I.E 5.5.