Love it or hate it… well… does anyone really love Internet Explorer?

But you have to live with it, at least if you’re doing web development, because it’s necessary to test against it. It’s so buggy that many people code first against it, make their site work on it (given that it has the bulk of the browser market share) and then try to get their site working with other, less buggy, more standards-compliant browsers without breaking their Internet Explorer compatibility.

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For a website which is largely database navigation and which you want to attract search engines to, you want to make sure that as much of the website is available without requiring a login as is possible.

For instance, if you’re developing a restaurant review website (ahem), you really want to make sure that the information about the restaurants is available without making the user login. You probably want to have a few features like rating or reviewing a restaurant that will only be available to logged-in users, but the display of the restaurant’s information should look as similar as it can between the logged-in and not-logged-in cases.

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