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Nope. I, for one, refuse to make one version of my websites for IE and another for browsers who make the effort to display stuff properly.

Unfortunately the problems with IE largely stem from the fact that Microsoft is a monopoly and won the browser wars a long time ago. With most everyday home computer users still using Windows, and with IE being bolted into the package, most will never switch to another browser and will simply assume that any site that doesn't work with their browser is broken. Microsoft doesn't need to devote a large amount of effort to IE development anymore because they already have everyone using it.

In a perfect world everyone would want to use a standards compliant browser and Microsoft probably would be forced to rework IE. If you are designing websites according to the standard and that causes them to render incorrectly (to a noticeable degree) with IE, you are bound to get a call from an IE user at some stage requesting that you fix it. Its one of those no win situations, you want to develop standards complaint pages, but you also want full browser compatibility. I can't recall who said it, but this quote about sums it up:

The good thing about standards is, you have so many to choose from.