One of the standards that the An Tir webteam tries to fulfill is that of Any Browser compliance. Basically put, this means that you will never see a "This site best viewed with browser" ad on this site.
The WWW is not just MSIE and Netscape - there's a plethora of other browsers out there, and a plethora of countries that are on the net. Your average setup in a poor country won't have wizbang P166's running the latest and greatest megabrowser - they're likely to be running something textual (like Lynx).
Also, there's the whole question of access for the visually impaired. Try using Netscape with no ability to see where a link is. Rather hard, I'd say. Most visually impaired people use Lynx, with either a voice synthesis program, or a braille interface. Seeing as things are hard enough for them already, we want their trip through the An Tir website to be as easy as possible.
This isn't to say we're a bunch of neo-luddites, though. We will use just about anything from the HTML 3.2 specification in this website, and will enhance the site with images and spiffy things, but only as long as they do not require the use of any specific browser.
If this sounds interesting to you, why not take a look at the Best Viewed With Any Browser campaign's site.
Kingdom of An Tir WWW site
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