Professional web developers don't develop targetting browsers, they develop targetting rendering engines (Trident, Gecko, Webkit, and Presto usually).

IE6 is garbage (to be fair it's almost a decade old so yeah...) but IE7 isn't all that bad and combined with the IE7Pro addon, it's pretty awesome.

Computers should come with a web browser.  If the OS is Microsoft Windows then it logically follows that it should be Microsoft's web browser.  The rest are freely available if the consumer desires them anyway.  Microsoft is providing them the means to go download them too.

Edit:  If IE is giving you problems and you don't use the IE Developer Toolbar, you should try it.

I really don't see what the problem is anyway. If Firefox or Opera cost £10 and IE was free then OK, but they're all free so it's not like it's taking sales away.

 Maybe it's just that Sony fans are pro-EU...

What's new? EU needs to get a frigging grip...here's a novel thought...use Linux, if you dislike windows so much...this sh!t is getting old, with EU whining ever year. Better yet, form a EU software code writing team to design a linux based OS to challenge M$...just stop the darn whining!

You need smarter friends it would appear. But one tends to mingle amongst peers, as they say.

Explorer sucks, that's why you use Firefox. Some do not like Windows, that's why they use Macs. The quality of specific products is one thing and putting a global qualifier on a company as large and massive as Microsoft with different divisions is unwise.

You are arguing for people who dislike the taste of Coke to put a defense on their consumption of Fanta (boh being properties of The Coca-Cola Company). It's preposterous.

By the way, I find amusing how you couldn't be bothered to reword the last paragraph... as it stands, it's so puerile.

Opera ftw!

That's what I meant.  It doesn't change the fact that developing with all the different hacks and tricks is a pain in the butt.

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