Nope, unless someone knows PHP and can make a SMF mod that fixes it.

But seriously, Internet Explorer is terrible, especially 6 and 7. None of the versions are fully compliant with web standards. Some sites even blocks IE users to force them to switch.

I personally don't understand why some people absolutely want to stick to IE when you can customize Opera or Firefox to look similar to IE (if you only use IE for the look), unless your parents refuse to let you install a better browser.

IE is the nightmare of webdesigners like me, you have to create two CSS files, one that's compatible with IE and one for all the others.

IE just... it just sucks

Nope, unless someone knows PHP and can make a SMF mod that fixes it.

But seriously, Internet Explorer is terrible, especially 6 and 7. None of the versions are fully compliant with web standards. Some sites even blocks IE users to force them to switch.

I personally don't understand why some people absolutely want to stick to IE when you can customize Opera or Firefox to look similar to IE (if you only use IE for the look), unless your parents refuse to let you install a better browser.

Yes the standards on IE 7 and even 8 are just terrible.
IE 6? Forget it! No tabs? The nightmare browser

As for DJ your question, it's microsoft. Terrible. Ever since IE started owning the market over the previous superbrowser, Netscape (which was interestingly run by Mozilla) in the 1990. Microsoft has taken great lengths to ensure it's browser dominated. So they started introducing it into their OS so that it would ship with it. and the real reason for people to choose it is not because they choose to stick to it, it's that many have never even heard of firefox or chrome or opera and just 'are happy with the default programs that microsoft provides with windows'. But things are changing, and with IE coming down to less than 50% of the market share, someday MIcrosoft will go DOWN!!!

Anyway i like this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars

for another reason why IE 8 sucks: go to acid3.acidtests.org
try it first with chrome or any other non-ie browser and then try Interent explorer 8. you'll be laughing. imagine ie6's score.

As for IE 9 well i will have to change sympathies a bit because it is much better. but i also see it as a catchup to the other browsers rather than leading the pack

thhis page will also have you laughing. it has so many lies that you can easily see thorugh, microsoft is desperately trying to save its precious browser
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/compare/default.aspx

also here in the public library i am forced to use the horror ie7 and on the profile page where you can edit your sig it keeps jumping down and shaking. also on ie 7 you cannot even drag in the bottom right corner to make the editing box bigger!

yep.  don't worry firefox is the best.

Or you might try IE9 Beta.  That might have fixes

also here in the public library i am forced to use the horror ie7 and on the profile page where you can edit your sig it keeps jumping down and shaking. also on ie 7 you cannot even drag in the bottom right corner to make the editing box bigger!

That's why I use FF portable and chrome portable. Not only do you have great browsers constantly with you, but you have all your bookmarks and settings as well.

But seriously, Internet Explorer is terrible, especially 6 and 7. None of the versions are fully compliant with web standards. Some sites even blocks IE users to force them to switch.

Me and my friends' site doesn't show up correctly with IE. So we put up a warning and links to FF and Chrome.

things have changed since the dominance of ie6 an acceptable browser when it was released, but towards the end of the life cycle a horror browser.
ie9 is microsoft's attempt to catch up with the rest. it has lots of improvements and scores 95% on the acid3 test, but is still behind in some areas.

Firefox has been dominant in increasing market share over the past few years, and chrome's is going up even faster than firefox. safari and opera are stable.

oh sorry i knew what u were saying, i was just veering off onto another topic
and yes opera is falling behind in some aspects of webpage rendering, however there are some things that only ie can do (not even ff) and when i have to do it, i am forced to open up that browser