It's also the best the author could do without wasting hours (days?) of his life only to support a broken browser that is probably not even very widely used in

It's also the best the author could do without wasting hours (days?) of his life only to support a broken browser that is probably not even very widely used in his target audience. Personally I'd have preferred a blunt "This page does not work in MSIE", but I understand that's still a risky thing to do, despite the market share figures having improved somewhat.