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>The old versions are, but try running the site on Chrome 1, or Firefox 3.6 (I believe a lot of old Ubuntu LTS releases have that). They'll be exactly the same.

You're forgetting quite how bad IE was. Having worked for a place that had to support many ancient browsers, getting IE8 working was three times as much work as FF3.2.

I hear the IE team have turned over a new leaf and are supporting all the standards, but I heard that about IE7 too.



Yea IE8 do not even support XHTML and DOM2, which are 10 years old now!




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