I hate to bring this up but it must be said.
The PerlMonks site breaks in IE5.

By breaks I mean it's side scrolling at 1024x768.
Now, this brings up the thorny HTML issue of building for different client browsers.
Do you build to the W3 strict standard, or do what works in the most browsers?
Has anyone come up with a reasonable solution for this?

For commercial sites it's often the lowest common denominator (not dynamic, one version). Even though at my work there are many big brains of PERL/PHP/Apache, no one has come up with a decent way to handle this.

You thoughts?

BTW: If you need help debugging the site html I would be happy to help.
ahsoul@netscape.net

In reply to Browser compatability by Ignorance

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