IE & the bandwagon

There are a lot of people out there in the world who believe in something and then advocate it to the rest. A lot of them believe in 10% and advocate a 100% Well, I will have to confess to doing such things at times. The most notable being advocating Netscape Messenger as an email client over outlook and trying to migrate someone away from outlook and in the process messing up with their machine :)

Windows x Mac, IE x Firefox, c++ x Java are all the examples of some great rivalries the high tech world has seen. There are some people who advocate JAVA, Mac, Linux etc because they have used it, love it etc. etc but there isa vast majority who just want to jump on the bandwagon and advocate these things not because they love it but because they believe in going anti-microsoft (I have already confessed to doing something similar)

Recently I was revamping a website which used to work only in Internet Explorer to work under Firefox as well and I came across lots of these arguments from people saying "What IE has done is non-standard hence I need to rewrite my website" etc. etc. Should I?

There is no way I can throw away the years of development that has gone in this. I accept IE is non standard but I do not expect IE to suddenly change all its internal code to be standards compliant. Moreover IE is more accomodating for the developers.

Bottomline is, If I can't make my website work in multiple browsers and for whatever reason I am restricted to one, It will be an easy choice in favour of IE as IE is still one of the most popular browsers in the marketplace.