swa66 - 10:43 am on Aug 14, 2009 (gmt 0)

From a CSS perspective IE indeed is a nightmare (and currently IE6 is the worst offender of all).

If you make something in CSS, it'll take you if you're medium experienced about twice as long to work around the bugs and be acceptable in IE6 and IE7 than to get it working in all other browsers combined.

If you're inexperienced in CSS, you're likely to fall for the trap of developing in IE: a road to nowhere as IE will set you on the wrong foot all the time, at every turn. And if you're not all that experienced with the IE bugs, things like the 3px jog, the double margin, the broken box model, ... will drive you insane.

Very experienced CSSers tend to know what IE will most likely break and even apply workaround proactively, but that's just overkill for any real browser. They might also spot the bugs of IE faster and know the different workarounds to try to get IE6 to comply.

I cannot believe anybody who's done some CSS not to have way too intimate knowledge of how bad (even evil) IE6 is, and how much it is holding back all of us.