Selecting browser for specific sites?

Question

Checking into some websites, we sometimes come across messages, that the particular site is viewed better with certain type of browser, say IE7 or Firefox.What causes the difference between different browsers for viewing a particular site?

Answer 1

Well its called lazy designers. A well planned and laid out site will work with your browser and wont tell you to use one or the other.

For the designer this is a real nightmare because IE doesn't use W3C standards (they seem to make up there own and add stuff that isn't standard) Whereas Firefox, Opera and others tend to support the W3C standards much closer. What happens is that if you build to the standards you look bad in IE and if you build to IE your site looks bad in the others.

Those users who insist on using Front Page even make the issue worse.

So lazy designers just say use this browser... its because they dont want to (or they dont know how) to make the site work with all! It is a real pain to do but it is done and done very well by the better web developers. Some developers even go so far as to build multiple sites, check your browser when you hit the site, and deliver the page designed for YOUR browser.

Those of us who get it call it the BROWSER wars.