Internet Exploder strikes again

THIS PAGE RENDERS BADLY, IF AT ALL, USING MICROSOFTS INTERNET EXPLORER.

If you are using IE, you already know that.
If you use Mozilla Firefox, read on.

It's really annoying because it's completely unnecessary.

This website is made using linux and drupal, and strictly conforms to worldwide web standards. That is to say that we (linuxcaffe website developers, and the global Open Source community) are following the rules (open standards) set out by worldwide industries and standards associations (including Microsoft) that have been established for the sole purpose of making things work for everybody.

The problem ?

The worlds largest software company, Microsoft, has a habit of participating in standards development, agreeing to standards, and then deliberately deviating from those standards in an effort to disrupt your computing experience. It's a practice that has become their signature strategy, now known as Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Why ?

In hopes that if you use their product (like 80% of the population) and try to inter-operate with a competing product (example; linux, Firefox, OpenOffice.org) and you have problems (example; web pages or Word documents render badly) then you may conclude that the competing product is lame, even though by simply adhering to the worldwide open standards, that they helped to establish, there would be no problem.

That's why this site appears horribly broken (you're using MS Internet Explorer) and why we didn't know about it (we use Firefox or Safari)

please stand by as our skilled web developers struggle yet again to apply goofy workarounds.