You can't get into a bank's website without requiring the browser to be IE. It is a global phenomenon, I checked a bunch of banks around the world, and the phenomenon is documented. For example in this article at linux.com and Uncyclopedia's official guide to choosing a browser. Yes, banks being in bed with Microsoft is a topic of satire and angst. How hard is it to design a website that would work with all standard browsers! The CSS and CSS2 standards exist for a reason, all major browsers adopted them, except for ... , you guessed who!
IE8 should be a step at the right direction, with Microsoft finally starting to adopt web standards, IE8 now passes Acid2, the same test Safari passed in 2005, now there is Acid3 which no browser passes yet, but I expect Safari to be the first browser to pass it as it was with Acid2, the future will show us how serious Microsoft is about Open standards. Maybe one day there will be no more IE-only website, one can hope.
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