Internet Explorer sucks

This will be no surprise to many people, but I wanted a rant, as I've just spent...far too long fiddling around with code on another site, desperately tweaking and prodding it so it does what it's meant to in IE. In every other browser it works fine and looks great, but IE insisted on adding an 8 pixel margin for NO REASON WHATSOEVER, which was a bigger pain than that sounds. As it turns out, because what got broken was being generated via javascript it was relatively simple to detect the browser, and if it's IE adjust the sizes to compensate for the extra margin, but it's still a pain in the arse.

I've not yet played with IE 8, which is apparently more standards-compliant, but no doubt that'll have its own range of problems. Apparently they've had to include a legacy mode within it, because so many sites have an IE-specific setup that when loaded in IE 8 they then break. Bwahahahaha. Serves MS right - why it's so hard to make something that sticks to the accepted standards is beyond me. Opera forever.