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Right and you have to test at least one browser that ranks below your expectations, else you wouldn't know if your feature detection/testing was working.

Granted, the typical Web developer will simply announce they don't care about any browsers deemed inferior (or unknown to them) at the time. History has shown that such carelessness leads to sites that are more likely to break in future (unknown to them at the time of development) browsers.

Often the expected outcome for IE 5 is a static page.



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