81% market share is still spectacular - even if you used to have 97%. However you look at it they are the largest player, and you have to design for it. Having

81% market share is still spectacular - even if you used to have 97%. However you look at it they are the largest player, and you have to design for it. Having a website that doesn't work in IE is like having a store where you have a guy at the door telling 4 out of five people that they can't come inside to buy your stuff. I don't particularly like MS, and I don't agree with their tactics but that doesn't mean I make the naive mistake of dismissing them or thinking that in a few years they'll be gone. They won't, so be a little pragmatic. IE is in no way irrelevant, nor is it becoming so in the near future.