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Make no bones about it, he’s not going to bend over backwards to support a brain-damaged browser! I almost fell off my chair laughing. I almost never browse in IE anymore, I use Firebird almost exlusively, but I’m on my sister-in-law’s computer right now, and she uses IE so this is the first time I have seen this. He’s got very good reasons, which he has explored over the past months on his weblog, one of the biggest is the lack of support for mathML—which he uses often. Just wish it was that easy for all of us though…
Funny, but you linked to the article in which I announced that IE was unsupported.
In that post, I said I was going to greet IE users with the popup you’ve linked to.
It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it.
You’re right, I did link to that announcement posting a while back… funny thing is I didn’t look at the popup, just your announcement and reasons. When I went to view your site from New York, it was a funny surprise…