Hahahaha.

Most web developers (especially those who do a lot of JavaScript stuff) hate Internet Explorer (IE), all versions of it, and for a number of good reasons.

One example is Webkit support. Webkit is this sort of CSS supplementary set of styling for browser makers to add to their browsers. The supplement is made to make developing/designing easier and to avoid ugly workarounds. Webkit is great, and is supported by most browsers EXCEPT Internet Explorer.

Another thing is its JavaScript quirks. Most notably annoying is the need for an entirely separate set (and style) of code for AJAX to work in IE. There are tons of annoying little things about IE’s separate requirements to make the script to work the way we want to. Thank god for jQuery.

One thing that’s been around forever and is generally accepted practice but shouldn’t have been around in the first place: the requirement for both Embed and Object tags for Flash stuff. The Object tag is for Internet Explorer, while Embed is for every other browser. We still have to add both for the Flash thing to show on all browsers.

So why still try to make websites to work in IE when clearly Microsoft is not going to change its ways to make developing and designing easier? Internet Explorer is still the most used browser in the world because it comes with every Windows computer. Hell, there are still people who use IE6 because people don’t bother upgrading or don’t know about the update (Microsoft didn’t include some sort of auto-updating or update notice in IE6). Although IE’s usage is generally going down as people go find other browsers to avoid its own user-side annoying quirks, it’s still considerably high. And it’s especially crucial to have IE support (even IE6) if your target audience is not knowledgeable in technology.