For years I was hearing from my brother and other Web developers how crappy Internet Explorer’s CSS support has been. Broken box model, extra margins and paddings, wrong font sizes… All this time I thought – so what's the fuss? A few broken rules here and there, so what?

Well, after building a relatively small database driven site in ASP.NET 2.0 and having to style it too (not just do the coding) I can finally understand these people. I wouldn’t want anyone to have to face the struggle with Internet Explorer to respect your CSS. It is absolutely unbelievable how many small things do not work properly. It’s all minor if taken in isolation, but together… it’s a nightmare.

I can’t wait for Internet Explorer 7 to clean most of these things up and I pity all those poor souls who had to endure this madness over the years, especially in the early days. At least we have Firefox today to verify our sanity and understanding of the standards…