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GorbachevAug 9th 2006 1:10PM

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Ervin, the reason why other browser makers don't make their rendering engines work like IE's is that IE's rendering engine is broken. You can only make a rendering engine work like IE's, if you purposedly broke yours.

The way IE parses HTML (and CSS) is fundamentally broken at the core. It's spaghetti design, a collection of ad-hoc fixes to problems that do not exist, IE specific hacks, non-standard extensions and bugs. You can not mimic it.

The only practical way a browser developer would make their rendering engine work like IE's would to include IE in their browser. And some have done that, just for that reason.

There's just so many things wrong with it. I've been working in web technologies (server side mostly, but also quite a bit of client side work) for almost 10 years now. The amount of time I've spent getting around IE's bugs, limitations and straightup fuckedupness would've been better used somewhere else. My productivity as a developer is suffering because MSIE just plain old sucks as a technology platform.

And that has NOTHING to do with being a nerd, a FireFox fanboy, incompetent in my profession, or MSIE being the defacto standard.

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