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Figure 6-11.
Firefox on OS X (left) and IE 6 on Windows XP display everything just as intended.
Summary
In the end, get the job done—that's the best philosophy to adopt with web design. When deal-
ing with browser problems in the real world, you'll find the process is best summed up by
a time-tested quote from one of history's great leaders:
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill
In the quest for browser and platform compatibility, we are often forced to strike a bal-
ance between clean markup and a few extra wrappers, and between totally valid styles and
a few necessary hacks. In the long run, if your goal is to have a working layout on all major
