I just spent the day in the library, where I used Internet Explorer on a public terminal. I knew that IE did not render CSS properly, but until I tried to use this web site for several hours in IE, I had no idea how bad things were. I’ve hacked the CSS so that it displays reasonably well in IE now. I hope this didn’t mess things up for other browsers. Grr… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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