Casual Rumblings

I was in the IE 8 beta program a year ago not even Microsoft rendered correctly. they have now fixed the issue however I know a lot of sites that dont render, Yahoo has only just sorted there issues, so imagine the problems when it comes out for all the developers that have not tested in IE8 lots of work to do people. my sites are AA standards W3C's strict and CSS valid and i still had to do some CSS hacks!

@daniel: if that's the case then jquery dialog css must not be compliant. Some of my jquey dialog boxes are behaving awkwardly in IE8 but perform well in ff,safari, and chrome.

While I tend to agree with the general stand you're taking, I do think you're wrong when you say that "They've made web development a headache since day one of IE."

IE actually _made_ the web what it is today. Up to and even including IE5 (maybe even IE6 when it was current), IE was the de facto browsing platform and it paved the way for browsing the web to be the rich experience it is today.

Unfortunately, after IE6, they rested on their laurels for _way_ too long and everyone else passed them by. And then continued to lap them about 37 times.

I haven't spent any time with IE8 yet, but I don't think it matters, frankly. Too many large shops aren't upgrading so, as a practical matter, we could be stuck with supporting IE6 indefinitely.

For my part, I'd be okay with IE continuing, but I'd really like them to move to one of the now standard engines - preferably WebKit.