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Right now 1 out of 5 visitors to your site may not see it the way they are suppposed to.
This is because some of visitors (curse them) are using old browsers.

See how your site look in old browsers
(it is free)

The standards of the web are continually changing as new technologies get introduced and old phased out. Today we can do all kinds of fancy stuff on our websites that we couldn't do just ½ year ago.

This continuous development means that the way that a particular website is shown in an old browser such as Internet Explorer 6 is very different from the way it is shown in a new browser such as Internet Explorer 8, since the new browser is using new standards that didn't exist when the old browser was developed.


Circa 20% of the population are using IE 6 or another ancient browser.

This means that if you haven't tested your site in IE6 your site may be unreadable by 1 out of 5 visitors.

This is the ACID2 test. It is made to test whether or not a browser is showing websites "according to today's standard".

ACID2 in up to date browser

The ACID2 test shown in Internet Explorer 8


ACID2 in Internet Explorer 6
Your site could look like this

Internet Explorer makes the smiley look like it has been put in a blender - Happy Smiley isn't happy.

See if your site looks like a blended tomato on
browsershots.org
(it is free)