Dear Internet Explorer...I hate you...

Let's face it. If you look in and around the interwebs, you hear many very unsatisfied people when it comes to Internet Explorer. Many of these people being web designers.

Now, I'm no real web designer. I'm more of a web dabbler, but the fact that people still use crap web browsers like Internet Explorer (any version, really) really bites my ass. Microsoft (or the loving abbreviation, 'M$') hasn't really cared about creating any kind of web-standards compliant software in a long time.

Granted, all the web browser developers out there have their own idea as to what web-standards are. However, if I open a web page, or even design one (like this one) in Safari, ninety percent of the time, there will be no problems when I open that page in Mozilla Firefox or Opera, or any other web browser.

But IE. Man, IE sucks the big one badly. I'm getting exhausted trying to fix this site to look good in Internet Explorer 6 and under. Another problem is I don't have access to Windows, except for once a week, and that's during office hours. So trying to fix it in the little windows of time I do have is impossible.

I hate it this much, probably because I'm not a web-design proffesional. However, when I look about for possible fixes, I hear just as many gripes from REAL professionals, it's depressing. All the fixes that they suggest, all come with disclaimers on how their fixes are difficult to implement, or aren't perfect.

Some people have made suggestions along the lines of, build your site in Internet Explorer, and then make tweaks for all the other browsers - this is the easiest way. I can understand this suggestion, but as I've said before, I don't use Windows. I use a Macintosh. I have no desire to go back to using Windows. I have no alternative. Sure, I could use IE for Mac, but no one else does, and I find it's more flawed than it's Windows counterpart.

Dear, M$. Stop sucking!