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Just curious. Here's why:

Today I started messing about with rewriting the CSS and managed to make it all much neater.

I soon discovered that the bug with floats in IE6 is much worse than I thought. If everyone were using Firefox, Opera or some other standards compliant browser there'd be no problem. But most people do not so there is a problem.

The bug itself was to do with the right hand column on the artist profile. Although IE was displaying the files section only as wide as it should, it wouldn't allow me to focus on anything to the right of it, seeming as if the files thing was going all the way across the page. Quite strange but fixed with a simple hack using absolute positioning, which didn't appear to break anything in other browsers. However, there was still a bit of odd display glitches with borders being shown over the top of other boxes but not containing anything.

I might as well go ahead anyway, since it'll make it much easier to add new HTML code for things. I'll probably give it about a week before I decide to go for it.

I use Opera for general web browsing, having switched yesterday. I also use Firefox for testing webpage design I'm working on. IE6 only ever gets used to make sure it can display a page I've just written correctly, so I can make sure things work for most internet users.

You should have made it possible to select multiple options.

I use Opera and FF. Opera for my main browsing and FF for when I don't want my cookies to be sent to pages (so I can visit forums without 'last visit' or 'have read' times being reset). I use FF as well for web development and then of course proofcheck everything in Opera as well as in IE6 running in wine.

And when I want to see how things look in a retarded browser, I fire up Netscape 4.72.

I'm sorry. I saw no such option. It is possible that I might switch to another BB system with more active development than phpBB. They don't seem to have done much for a long time. Maybe phpBB3 will be out soon... Maybe even before Shareaza 2.3!

i use firefoz because my brother made me and it is better than ie(not hard i no!)

Trying the site in Konqueror on Mandrake Linux 10.0, it looks fine. Even better than last time I tried it in this browser.

Following the Explorer Destroyer campaign that's recently emarged, I'm considering adding something similar, but not quite as intrusive. I think the Google $1 per conversion 'bounty' is only available to US residents, though, so I wouldn't be able to use that towards hosting costs. Shame, that, because it'll help with the cost of hosting without having to put any needless adverts anywhere.

Still, I have another plan...

I get starts now with this new hosting. Almost as many requests come from Google bots as from Firefox users! What's going on?

I don't know... but you can be sure that if you see an UA like this:

is me