So whose site were you quoting? One thing I also forgot until I had hit submit was that your stats show what the browsers report. There are numerous sites that do not work correctly unless your browser identifies as IE5.5 or higher. That is why most decent browser allows you to change what is presented. I use a couple of MSN forums and have my browser identify me as IE6 on XP(rather than the Konqueror on Gentoo Linux) as this makes the site more useable. Unfortunately it screws that stats as well.
You seem to believe that IE is a good browser, I am really sorry for you. Yes it works in that it displays sites, slow and clunky but yes it does work. Not to standards and this then encourages lazy developers which then causes other problems. If we carry on accepting this shoddy workmanship then MIcrosoft will continue to produce it. Look at SP2 as an example. It took over 6 months fot some vunerabilities to be patched. And then in patching these it breaks other quite fundamental things. In the open source community vunerabilities are patched usually the same day. MY system needs next to zero maintainance with a simple cron job that updates overnight.
Our job as responsible techies it to promote standards and choice. The more people that try Firefox et al the better. Even if this means that Microsoft pull their finger out and produce decent software. I spend far too much time fixing other peoples PCs because they have fallen victim to scams/viruses/spyware/malware. Slowly but surely they try the alternatives and my worries cease.
I wish you well with your browser, may you live happily ever after( though I doubt that will be the case
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Ian