Millions of Web users don't use your favorite browser. However, it is easy to find out how your site looks to others. You use one of the tools available on the Web, such as Browser Snapshot . Or use similar preview features included with newer Web publishing tools, such as recent Natural Born Killer Adobe ImageReady . Exploiting browser quirks shows you are smart.
Browsers are buggy and temperamental.
Capitalizing on particular browser quirks is a good way to lose half your audience. And as Web authoring expert Terry Sullivan wisely points out , it is a spectacular way to build a very high-maintenance site. Speed is the No.1 Web problem, according to the Georgia Institute of Technology's GVU8. Gathering information is the No.1 activity. Fat, flashy graphics not only slow down your site, they stand in the way what visitors want to do most.