Why does Microsoft's IE even exists?

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Published on 2010-05-12T15:30:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 15:34 UTC
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For real what is the point? Why can't it display pages properly like Chrome, safari or Firefox? If you want to make a web application (modern 2.0 site) that supports IE you will end up almost doubling your coding time as IE has its own interpretation of things. PLUS they just keep on changing how it renders pages from version to version (5,6,7,8) unbelievable. Microsoft hates web designers.

i used to handle rendering problems with extra JS scripts and CSS files but i had enoughs of this $hit all over my pages:

<!--[if IE]>
....
<!--[if IE 8]>
....
<!--[if IE 7]>
....
<!--[if IE 6]>
....

No more IE support for any of my projects,

So you guys think im exaggerating or IE is really a pain in the @@$?

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