Or at least just one of the many reasons.

Let’s take a look at some recent work I’ve been doing at SPARTA. We are implementing an internal web forum/message board. We are using JForum as the base because everything we do is already in Java. Not only just because it’s in Java, but it has added features like Single-Sign-On support so we can integrate it with our own Domain logins. Also, it has a fairly easy-to-customize template system.

So my primary task this week was to get JForum in place and integrate it with our common look and feel. Easy enough. Let’s see how the pages look in Firefox:

Not bad …

Now let’s check Safari:

Perfect …

How about IE?

Uh oh …