This website is best viewed in [this browser] is bad
"Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." and while I agree with him commercially I disagree personally.
Commercially websites should be cross browser and accessible. This means that you should be supporting modern browsers with sensible degrading for older technologies - and IF it is going to be broken for something, you should be able to justify why it can remain broken.
Personally I don't see a problem - as you can see at the bottom-right of this site. The reason I declare what this was designed and built for is because I don't care if it doesn't work in IE5.5. I don't care that the variable-transparency PNG's don't work in IE6. This site is run by me and aimed at tech-savvy people so you're unlikely to be reading this in anything but Firefox but if you are, it's likely it's Safari, Opera or IE7. I have a very militant standpoint on websites to the tune of "no javascript = no internet for you" and I carry this philosophy through to my personal site.
Of course I'm different professionally but Mr Berners-Lee is wrong for Seopher.com. Of course professional sites have outgrown this declaration of compatability but personal sites haven't. Hell, I design and develop the site myself for a specific audience, therefore I'm still catering for the majority. Just thought I'd make comment on this...
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